{"id":11852,"date":"2019-12-07T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/06\/nepal-makes-first-period-hut-arrest-after-woman-dies-during-banned-custom"},"modified":"2019-12-07T00:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:32:31","slug":"nepal-makes-first-period-hut-arrest-after-woman-dies-during-banned-custom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11852","title":{"rendered":"Nepal makes first &#8216;period hut&#8217; arrest after woman dies during banned custom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police apprehend brother-in-law of Parwati Budha Rawat after 21-year-old is found dead in windowless hut in Accham district<\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old woman has died after spending three nights in an outdoor \u201cperiod hut\u201d, prompting police in Nepal to make their first ever arrest in connection with the illegal practice.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of <em>chhaupadi, <\/em>where menstruating women in Nepal are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/feb\/06\/young-woman-dies-fourth-period-hut-tragedy-this-year-nepal\">banished from their homes<\/a>, is still widespread in remote and poorer parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/06\/nepal-makes-first-period-hut-arrest-after-woman-dies-during-banned-custom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police apprehend brother-in-law of Parwati Budha Rawat after 21-year-old is found dead in windowless hut in Accham districtA 21-year-old woman has died after spending three nights in an outdoor \u201cperiod hut\u201d, prompting police in Nepal to make their firs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"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":[59,984,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-menstruation","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/11852","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\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions\/11853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}