{"id":26255,"date":"2021-01-01T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/01\/pakistans-metoo-movement-hangs-in-the-balance-over-celebrity-case"},"modified":"2021-01-01T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:45:03","slug":"pakistans-metoo-movement-hangs-in-the-balance-over-celebrity-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26255","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s #MeToo movement hangs in the balance over celebrity case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular actor was accused of harassment \u2013 now those who spoke against him are being charged under law meant to protect women<\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot to rattle Leena Ghani. As an artist turned activist helping to raise the voices of Pakistan\u2019s women, she has often fielded abuse, threats and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>But when she learned, on a morning in late September, that police had charged her for criminal defamation, linked to Pakistan\u2019s most high-profile #MeToo case, Ghani says she was shaken. \u201cIn terms of silencing and demonising people speaking out against sexual assault, it was a new low even for Pakistan,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/01\/pakistans-metoo-movement-hangs-in-the-balance-over-celebrity-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular actor was accused of harassment \u2013 now those who spoke against him are being charged under law meant to protect womenIt takes a lot to rattle Leena Ghani. As an artist turned activist helping to raise the voices of Pakistan\u2019s women, she has of&#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":[646,59,60,336,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-sexual-harassment","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\/26255","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=26255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26257,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions\/26257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}