{"id":23740,"date":"2020-10-13T04:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/bangladesh-approves-death-penalty-for-after-protests"},"modified":"2020-10-13T04:07:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:07:55","slug":"bangladesh-approves-death-penalty-for-rape-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23740","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh approves death penalty for rape after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaults<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a> will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several high-profile sexual assaults prompted a wave of protests across the country in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Monday, cabinet secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam confirmed that the cabinet had approved a bill ruling that anyone convicted of rape would be punished with death or \u201crigorous imprisonment\u201d for life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/bangladesh-approves-death-penalty-for-after-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaultsBangladesh will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several high-profile sexual assaults prompted a wave of protests across the country in recent weeks.Speakin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1617,"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":[327,1038,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-capital-punishment","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/23740","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\/1617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions\/23742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}