{"id":28111,"date":"2021-02-09T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/muslim-families-complain-to-un-over-sri-lankan-covid-cremations"},"modified":"2021-02-09T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:00:03","slug":"muslim-families-complain-to-un-over-sri-lankan-covid-cremations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28111","title":{"rendered":"Muslim families complain to UN over Sri Lankan Covid cremations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim Council of Great Britain brings case against policy preventing burials on unproven health grounds<\/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>A group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) about Sri Lanka\u2019s policy of enforced cremation of all those confirmed or suspected to have died with Covid, saying it breaches their religious rights and is causing \u201cuntold misery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The case seeking interim relief is being brought on behalf of the families by the Muslim Council of Great Britain and with the support of the British law firm Bindmans. It is alleged that the Sri Lankan government is enforcing hundreds of cremations despite international and Sri Lankan medical experts saying there is no evidence that Covid-19 is communicable from dead bodies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/muslim-families-complain-to-un-over-sri-lankan-covid-cremations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim Council of Great Britain brings case against policy preventing burials on unproven health groundsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee (H&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[1066,53,447,371,61,674,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-united-nations","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\/28111","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28113,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions\/28113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}