{"id":1957421,"date":"2023-06-26T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-condemns-harassment-of-journalist-who-questioned-indian-pm-modi-on-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:35:26","slug":"white-house-condemns-harassment-of-journalist-who-questioned-indian-pm-modi-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-condemns-harassment-of-journalist-who-questioned-indian-pm-modi-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"White House denounces journalist harassment over human rights questioning of Indian PM Modi."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-condemns-harassment-of-journalist-who-questioned-indian-pm-modi-on-human-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1957421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The White House Condemns Online Harassment of Journalist Questioning Democracy in India<\/h2>\n<p>The White House has strongly condemned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-kamala-harris-task-force-looks-a-lot-like-the-disinformation-governance-board\/\" title=\"New Kamala Harris Task Force Looks A Lot Like The Disinformation Governance Board\">online harassment faced<\/a> by journalist Sabrina Siddiqui, who raised questions about the state of democracy in India during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a> with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Some of them are politicians, they have associations with the Modi government, and in particular, they have been targeting her because of her Muslim faith and questioning her own heritage,&#8221; one journalist said Monday. &#8220;Because this was supposed to be about democracy in some form, I wanted to find out what is the White House reaction to the fact that a journalist posing a question to a democratic leader is getting that kind of pushback?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesman, swiftly denounced the abuse, stating, &#8220;We&#8217;re aware of the reports of harassment. It&#8217;s unacceptable, and we absolutely condemn any harassment of journalists anywhere under any circumstances. That&#8217;s just, that&#8217;s completely unacceptable. It&#8217;s antithetical to the very principles of democracy that, you&#8217;re right, were on display last week during the state visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized the Biden administration&#8217;s commitment to the freedom of the press.<\/p>\n<p>The question was initially asked during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ioc-president-will-not-add-fuel-to-summer-olympics-cancellation-rumors\/\" title=\"IOC president will \u2018not add fuel\u2019 to Summer Olympics cancellation rumors\">joint press conference<\/a> between Modi and President Joe Biden. Modi responded with a statement affirming his support for democracy, stating, &#8220;As President Biden also mentioned, India and America, both countries, democracy is in our DNA. Democracy is in our spirit. Democracy runs in our veins. We live democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, since then, Siddiqui has been subjected to Twitter harassment, with users targeting her based on her Muslim faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House criticized the online harassment of a journalist who questioned PM Narendra Modi on India&#8217;s democracy. Sabrina Siddiqui, a Wall Street Journal reporter, asked if India&#8217;s claim as the world&#8217;s largest democracy was at risk, as human rights groups condemn the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1957423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}