{"id":41912,"date":"2019-12-12T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41912"},"modified":"2019-12-12T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:22:59","slug":"indian-military-deployed-and-internet-shut-down-as-protests-rage-against-citizenship-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41912","title":{"rendered":"Indian military deployed and internet shut down as protests rage against citizenship bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Troops have been deployed to India&#8217;s ethnically diverse northeastern states of Assam and Tripura, amid violent protests against the passing of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/11\/asia\/india-citizenship-amendment-bill-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">controversial and far-reaching law <\/a>that offers a path to Indian citizenship for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/19\/asia\/india-muslim-modi-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">non-Muslim minorities<\/a> from three neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was approved by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, a day after the country&#8217;s parliament passed it. It has been described by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/19\/world\/narendra-modi-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>&#8216;s Hindu nationalist government as a means of protecting vulnerable groups from persecution. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Critics, however, say the bill marginalizes Muslims and undermines the country&#8217;s secular constitution. Others say it risks bringing an unwanted influx of immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan into India&#8217;s northern states. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Troops have been deployed to India&#8217;s ethnically diverse northeastern states of Assam and Tripura, amid violent protests against the passing of a controversial and far-reaching law that offers a path to Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries.The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was approved by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, a day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}