{"id":1570389,"date":"2024-03-23T19:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=cb11cc46107fade44d8766325dc0e15d"},"modified":"2024-03-23T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:26:48","slug":"modi-government-cracks-down-on-opposition-before-indian-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/23\/modi-government-cracks-down-on-opposition-before-indian-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi Government Cracks Down on Opposition Before Indian Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India&rsquo;s right-wing government cracks down on opposition ahead of next month&rsquo;s general elections, Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities to &ldquo;stop weaponizing the criminal justice system to intimidate and harass&rdquo; political candidates, activists, and others. Protests broke out in the capital New Delhi and other Indian cities after police on Thursday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/modi-government-cracks-down-on-opposition-before-indian-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/modi-government-cracks-down-on-opposition-before-indian-election\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The growing crackdown clearly shows the authorities&#8217; blatant disregard for human rights and rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76903,13098,76918,48564,452,33225,46899,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570390,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570389\/revisions\/1570390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}