{"id":203,"date":"2004-01-22T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/22\/arrests-over-gujarat-pogroms\/"},"modified":"2004-01-22T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T14:36:18","slug":"arrests-over-gujarat-pogroms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/22\/arrests-over-gujarat-pogroms\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests Over Gujarat Pogroms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a83'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Federal police have <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3419695.stm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">arrested 12 people<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> on charges of murder and gang rape during the 2002 Gujarat massacre against Muslims.&nbsp; The CBI had taken over because of the failure of the local police to properly investigate the crimes:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><EM><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The CBI was asked to follow up the case after India&#8217;s National Human Rights Commission came in support of the petitioner and a key eyewitness, Bilkis Bano. <\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Bilkis Bano, who was pregnant at the time, is reported to have seen three women being raped in the incident in which 14 Muslims were also killed.<\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">See our earlier post on <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/08#a53\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Bilkis Bano<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal police have arrested 12 people on charges of murder and gang rape during the 2002 Gujarat massacre against Muslims.&nbsp; The CBI had taken over because of the failure of the local police to properly investigate the crimes: The CBI was asked to follow up the case after India&#8217;s National Human Rights Commission came in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}