{"id":89744,"date":"2020-01-07T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=89744"},"modified":"2020-01-07T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:01:14","slug":"amnesty-international-criticizes-polices-failure-to-protect-students-apcc-condemns-jnu-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/amnesty-international-criticizes-polices-failure-to-protect-students-apcc-condemns-jnu-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International criticizes police&#8217;s failure to protect students; APCC condemns JNU violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Jan 6:<\/strong> Human rights organisation Amnesty International India on Monday criticized the Delhi police for &#8220;repeatedly failing&#8221; to protect the students peacefully protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).<br \/>\nThe Delhi police remained &#8220;shameful bystanders to mob brutality on students,&#8221; its all-India Executive Director Avinash Kumar said in a statement.<br \/>\n&#8220;The authorities have failed in their duty to ensure the safety of the students, signalling a shameful complicity of the state machinery.<br \/>\n&#8220;Whether it be JNU or Jamia Millia University, the Delhi police have repeatedly failed to protect the students peacefully protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>APCC condemns JNU rampage<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, strongly condemning the attack on students and teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) termed the incident an act of barbarism.<br \/>\n&#8220;The goons, armed with lathis and rods, beating students and teachers indiscriminately, which has left them seriously injured and hospitalized, is an act of barbarism,&#8221; APCC general secretary Mina Toko said in a press release.<br \/>\nStating that the rampage in JNU by masked goons exposed &#8220;how fascist force is trying to take control of our nation and destroying the beauty of democracy,&#8221; Toko said it was because the nation&#8217;s leaders &#8220;fought against and resisted such atrocities&#8221; that India is today a free nation with the largest democracy.<br \/>\nThe country will continue to uphold democracy and have victory, she said. (With PTI input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Jan 6: Human rights organisation Amnesty International India on Monday criticized the Delhi police for &#8220;repeatedly failing&#8221; to protect the students peacefully protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The Delhi police remained &#8220;shameful bystanders to mob brutality on students,&#8221; its all-India Executive Director Avinash Kumar said in a statement. &#8220;The authorities have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}