{"id":191556,"date":"2026-01-01T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=191556"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:44:54","slug":"harassment-of-kashmiris-continues-across-india-as-another-vendor-assaulted-in-haryana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/01\/01\/harassment-of-kashmiris-continues-across-india-as-another-vendor-assaulted-in-haryana.html","title":{"rendered":"Harassment of Kashmiris continues across India as another vendor assaulted in Haryana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191562\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/tempsnip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"180\" \/>New Delhi: Kashmiri shawl sellers and traders in several Indian states continue to face harassment and intimidation over their identity, forcing many to abandon places where they have lived and worked for their livelihood. The latest such incident has been reported from Fatehabad district of Haryana.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, a Kashmiri shawl vendor was assaulted and coerced into chanting Hindu slogans. A video circulating on social media since Tuesday shows a local resident threatening the Kashmiri youth and forcing him to chant \u201cVande Mataram.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage captures the vendor being humiliated and subjected to degrading treatment after he initially refused to chant the slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Some local women present at the scene attempted to defuse the situation by urging the accused to stop the abuse, but their pleas went unheeded.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has once again heightened fear and uncertainty among Kashmiri students and traders living outside their homeland, particularly in northern India, where similar episodes of harassment have been reported in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Kashmiri shawl sellers and traders in several Indian states continue to face harassment and intimidation over their identity, forcing many to abandon places where they have lived and worked for their livelihood. The latest such incident has been reported from Fatehabad district of Haryana. According to Kashmir Media Service, a Kashmiri shawl vendor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":191562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindutva"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/tempsnip.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191563,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191556\/revisions\/191563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}