{"id":398059,"date":"2023-01-23T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T08:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=398059"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:46:56","slug":"india-orders-youtube-and-twitter-to-remove-bbc-documentary-on-modis-role-in-gujarat-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/india-orders-youtube-and-twitter-to-remove-bbc-documentary-on-modis-role-in-gujarat-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"India Orders YouTube & Twitter to Remove BBC Documentary on Modi’s Role During Gujarat Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian government directed Twitter and YouTube to block the sharing of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question<\/em><\/strong>. Multiple YouTube videos and related tweets were ordered to be taken down, and even sharing of clips from the documentary on social media is barred.<\/p>\n

The two-part BBC documentary, which aired on 17 January 2023, highlighted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his role during the horrific 2002 Gujarat riots.<\/p>\n

Senior advisor at India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Kanchan Gupta tweeted on Saturday, “Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country\u2019s information technology rules”.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanchanGupta\/status\/1616745170183278592?s=20&t=r-tGDLkY8cx2ij1oFDd6Gg<\/p>\n\t\t

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The two-part documentary has certainly rattled the Indian government due to its eye-opening look at PM Modi and his Hindu nationalist party’s involvement in the atrocities committed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.<\/p>\n

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India: The Modi Question<\/em><\/strong> tracks Modi’s rise as a politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u00a0and his tenure as chief minister of Gujarat when it was gripped by communal riots that left thousands of Muslims dead.<\/p>\n

One brave tweep managed to share snippets of the documentary on Twitter.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/churumuri\/status\/1615657431635496960?s=20&t=UP14lNbzLAmjVImBQvN4pA<\/p>\n

According to a UK report, the events had \u201call the hallmarks of an ethnic cleansing\u201d. UK’s foreign secretary at the time, Jack Straw was also interviewed in which he stated that allegations against Narendra Modi undermined his reputation. He said,<\/p>\n

These were very serious claims \u2013 that Chief Minister Modi had played a pretty active part in pulling back the police and in tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists. That was a particularly egregious example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/churumuri\/status\/1615674713921187845?s=20&t=UP14lNbzLAmjVImBQvN4pA<\/p>\n\t\t

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The documentary featured the UK report which claimed that there was widespread rape of Muslim women and that the riots’ main objective was to \u201cpurge Muslims from Hindu areas\u201d.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/churumuri\/status\/1615681121051889664?s=20&t=UP14lNbzLAmjVImBQvN4pA<\/p>\n

Despite the Indian government’s attempts to block the controversial documentary, Netizens continue to call out Narendra Modi’s atrocities as hashtags like #BBCDocumentary, and #GujaratRiots are trending on social media. The second part of the BBC documentary is set to air on 24 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian government directed Twitter and YouTube to block the sharing of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question. Multiple YouTube videos and related tweets were ordered to be taken down, and even sharing of clips from the documentary on social media is barred. The two-part BBC documentary, which aired on 17 January 2023, highlighted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":398074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,2540,2568,2517,1291,2554,2514,2564],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-international","9":"category-politics","10":"category-religion","11":"category-social-media","12":"category-twitter","13":"category-web-series","14":"category-youtube"},"wps_subtitle":"\"Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers\".","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/modi-bbc-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/modi-bbc-758x426.jpg",758,426,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/modi-bbc.jpg",1000,562,false]},"author_name":"Sher Alam","categories_name":["Crime","International","Politics","Religion","Social Media","Twitter","Web series","YouTube"],"title_text":"India Orders YouTube & Twitter to Remove BBC Documentary on Modi\u2019s Role During Gujarat Riots","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,2540,2568,2517,1291,2554,2514,2564&exclude=398059","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398059"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=398059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}