{"id":26210,"date":"2020-12-31T03:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/muslim-council-of-britain-challenges-forced-covid-cremations-in-sri-lanka"},"modified":"2020-12-31T03:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T18:54:31","slug":"muslim-council-of-britain-challenges-forced-covid-cremations-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26210","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Council of Britain challenges forced Covid cremations in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country insists all people who die of virus are cremated even if it violates religious beliefs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Muslim Council of Britain is launching a legal challenge to the Sri Lankan government\u2019s policy that all people who die of Covid must be cremated, even in violation of their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The insistence on cremation has caused great distress among the country\u2019s Muslim minority. Islam stipulates that the dead must be buried.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/muslim-council-of-britain-challenges-forced-covid-cremations-in-sri-lanka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country insists all people who die of virus are cremated even if it violates religious beliefsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Muslim Council of Britain is launching a legal challenge to the Sri Lankan government\u2019s policy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"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":[1066,914,447,371,61,674,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions\/26211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}