{"id":15713,"date":"2020-03-12T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/12\/pakistan-passes-law-against-child-abuse-in-wake-of-zainab-ansari-case"},"modified":"2020-03-12T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T01:00:02","slug":"pakistan-passes-law-against-child-abuse-in-wake-of-zainab-ansari-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15713","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan passes law against child abuse in wake of Zainab Ansari case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rape and murder of the seven-year-old shocked the nation in 2018, spurring new legislation <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s parliament passed a new law against child abuse, two years after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl that shocked the country.<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s first national child abuse law will introduce a penalty of life imprisonment for child abuse, Pakistan\u2019s human rights minister, Shireen Mazari, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/12\/pakistan-passes-law-against-child-abuse-in-wake-of-zainab-ansari-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rape and murder of the seven-year-old shocked the nation in 2018, spurring new legislation Pakistan\u2019s parliament passed a new law against child abuse, two years after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl that shocked the country.The nation\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"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":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","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\/15713","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\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}