{"id":28597,"date":"2021-02-18T01:53:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/indian-ex-minister-loses-metoo-defamation-case"},"modified":"2021-02-18T01:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:53:20","slug":"indian-ex-minister-loses-metoo-defamation-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28597","title":{"rendered":"Indian ex-minister loses #MeToo defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Priya Ramani cleared of defamation over sexual assault accusation against Mobashar Jawed Akbar<\/p>\n<p>A court in Delhi has acquitted a journalist of defamation after she accused a former government minister of sexual assault, in a landmark ruling for India\u2019s #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<p>Indian journalist Priya Ramani had faced up to two years in jail for criminal defamation over an article she had written accusing Mobashar Jawed Akbar, a former foreign minister and newspaper editor, of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room during a job interview.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/indian-ex-minister-loses-metoo-defamation-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priya Ramani cleared of defamation over sexual assault accusation against Mobashar Jawed AkbarA court in Delhi has acquitted a journalist of defamation after she accused a former government minister of sexual assault, in a landmark ruling for India\u2019s #&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,238,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-media","category-women","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\/28597","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28599,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions\/28599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}