{"id":13946,"date":"2024-06-15T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13946"},"modified":"2024-06-15T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:37:15","slug":"everyone-is-absolutely-terrified-inside-a-us-allys-secret-war-on-its-american-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13946","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEveryone is absolutely terrified\u201d: Inside a US ally\u2019s secret war on its American critics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have spent the past several months investigating stories like Naik\u2019s: critics of India who say the Indian government has reached across the Pacific Ocean to harass them on American soil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interviews with political figures, experts, and activists revealed a sustained campaign where Narendra Modi\u2019s government threatens American citizens and permanent residents who dare speak out on the declining state of the country\u2019s democracy. This campaign has not been described publicly until now because many people in the community&nbsp; \u2014&nbsp;even prominent ones \u2014 are too afraid to talk about it. (The Indian government did not respond to repeated and detailed requests for comment.)&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/24160779\/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/24160779\/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have spent the past several months investigating stories like Naik\u2019s: critics of India who say the Indian government has reached across the Pacific Ocean to harass them on American soil.<br \/>\nInterviews with political figures, experts, and activists revealed a sustained campaign where Narendra Modi\u2019s government threatens American citizens and permanent residents who dare speak out on the declining state of the country\u2019s democracy. This campaign has not been described publicly until now because many people in the community  \u2014 even prominent ones \u2014 are too afraid to talk about it. (The Indian government did not respond to repeated and detailed requests for comment.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/24160779\/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[83,494],"class_list":["post-13946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-india","tag-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13947,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions\/13947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}