{"id":11550,"date":"2019-11-26T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/26\/woman-trying-to-visit-indian-temple-attacked-with-chilli-spray"},"modified":"2019-11-26T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:02:11","slug":"woman-trying-to-visit-indian-temple-attacked-with-chilli-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11550","title":{"rendered":"Woman trying to visit Indian temple attacked with chilli spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police \u2018looked on and watched\u2019 during assault as activists tried to enforce right to visit shrine<\/p>\n<p>Female activists in India were violently attacked by protesters and stopped by police as they attempted to make a pilgrimage to a Hindu temple which was controversially ordered to open its doors to women.<\/p>\n<p>A group of seven women, led by the gender equality activist Trupti Desai, arrived at Cochin airport in the early hours of Tuesday to exercise their right to visit the holy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jan\/03\/gender-activism-india-womens-wall-sabarimala-temple-kerala\">Sabarimala temple<\/a>, in the southern Indian state of Kerala.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/26\/woman-trying-to-visit-indian-temple-attacked-with-chilli-spray\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police \u2018looked on and watched\u2019 during assault as activists tried to enforce right to visit shrineFemale activists in India were violently attacked by protesters and stopped by police as they attempted to make a pilgrimage to a Hindu temple which was co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,371,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}