{"id":3653,"date":"2018-01-19T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:40:48","slug":"dr-iqtidar-cheema-honoured-by-california-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/2018\/01\/19\/dr-iqtidar-cheema-honoured-by-california-state-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Iqtidar Cheema honoured by California State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cadbury Centre Honorary Fellow Dr Iqtidar Cheema has been recently formally recognised by the State Senate of California for his services to global advocacy of human rights, religious freedom and interfaith. State Senator Bob Wieckowski on behalf of California State Senate confirmed the honour upon Dr Cheema, who is currently a member of the UN Advisory Committee and has testified on various occasions at the United States Congress as an expert witness. \u00a0Dr Cheema said that he was humbled to receive the award, but he dedicates the honour to the Rohingya of Myanmar, the Yazidi and Christians of Iraq, the Sikh victims of 1984 and other people groups and religious communities\u00a0who have been persecuted across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3654\" style=\"font-weight: bold;text-align: inherit\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/01\/State-senator-Bob3264-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation to Dr Iqtidar Cheema\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/01\/State-senator-Bob3264-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/01\/State-senator-Bob3264-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/01\/State-senator-Bob3264-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/01\/State-senator-Bob3264.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Presentation to Dr Iqtidar Cheema &#8211; photo (c) Joe Meehan&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadbury Centre Honorary Fellow Dr Iqtidar Cheema has been recently formally recognised by the State Senate of California for his services to global advocacy of human rights, religious freedom and interfaith. State Senator Bob Wieckowski on behalf of California State Senate confirmed the honour upon Dr Cheema, who is currently a member of the UN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/2018\/01\/19\/dr-iqtidar-cheema-honoured-by-california-state-senate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Iqtidar Cheema honoured by California State Senate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-global-politics","category-public-policy","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}