{"id":26382,"date":"2021-01-06T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/06\/virginity-tests-for-female-survivors-outlawed-by-pakistani-court"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:27:19","slug":"virginity-tests-for-female-rape-survivors-outlawed-by-pakistani-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26382","title":{"rendered":"Virginity tests for female rape survivors outlawed by Pakistani court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge said the \u2018humiliating\u2019 practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violence<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Lahore\u2019s high court ruled on Monday that the virginity test has no legal basis and \u201coffends the personal dignity of the female victim\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/06\/virginity-tests-for-female-survivors-outlawed-by-pakistani-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge said the \u2018humiliating\u2019 practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violenceA Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"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":[59,86,60,242,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-law","category-pakistan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","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\/26382","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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26384,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382\/revisions\/26384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}