{"id":330836,"date":"2021-02-04T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330836"},"modified":"2021-02-04T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:31:47","slug":"i-still-stand-with-farmers-says-greta-thunberg-after-delhi-police-files-fir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/i-still-stand-with-farmers-says-greta-thunberg-after-delhi-police-files-fir\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I still stand with farmers\u2019; says Greta Thunberg after Delhi Police files FIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330837 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/greta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/greta.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/greta-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/greta-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The Delhi police on Thursday filed an FIR against climate activist Greta Thunberg for her tweets on the ongoing farmers\u2019 protest at Delhi borders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shortly after the FIR was registered, Thunberg tweeted saying, \u201cI still #StandWithFarmers and support their peaceful protest. No amount of hate, threats or violations of human rights will ever change that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In her first tweet, Greta Thunberg wrote &#8220;We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India&#8221; and shared a CNN article on the ongoing farmers&#8217; protest in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Her tweet came soon after pop star Rihanna wrote on social media, &#8220;Why aren\u2019t we talking about this?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, Thunberg shared a document on the agitation saying, &#8220;Here\u2019s an updated toolkit by people on the ground in India if you want to help. (They removed their previous document as it was outdated.) #StandWithFarmers #FarmersProtest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry of External Affairs yesterday issued a statement saying that it is \u201cunfortunate\u201d that some vested groups are trying to enforce their agenda on these protests, and trying to derail them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBefore rushing to comment on such matters, we would urge that the facts be ascertained, and a proper understanding of the issues at hand be undertaken. The temptation of sensationalist social media hashtags and comments, especially when resorted to by celebrities and others, is neither accurate nor responsible,&#8221; the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi police on Thursday filed an FIR against climate activist Greta Thunberg for her tweets on the ongoing farmers\u2019 protest at Delhi borders.\u00a0 Shortly after the FIR was registered, Thunberg tweeted saying, \u201cI still #StandWithFarmers and support their peaceful protest. No amount of hate, threats or violations of human rights will ever change that.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014,53],"tags":[517,13731,12250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330839,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330836\/revisions\/330839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}