{"id":34975,"date":"2021-08-09T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/09\/eight-year-old-becomes-youngest-person-charged-with-blasphemy-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T04:00:40","slug":"eight-year-old-becomes-youngest-person-charged-with-blasphemy-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34975","title":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old becomes youngest person charged with blasphemy in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu boy faces possible death penalty after being accused of intentionally urinating in a madrassa library<\/p>\n<p>An eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s family is in hiding and many of the Hindu community in the conservative district of Rahim Yar Khan, in Punjab, have fled their homes after a Muslim crowd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/05\/pakistan-deploys-paramilitary-in-punjab-after-muslim-mob-attacks-hindu-temple\">attacked a Hindu temple<\/a> after the boy\u2019s release on bail last week. Troops were deployed to the area to quell any further unrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/09\/eight-year-old-becomes-youngest-person-charged-with-blasphemy-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu boy faces possible death penalty after being accused of intentionally urinating in a madrassa libraryAn eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged wit&#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":[913,59,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-rights","category-global-development","category-pakistan","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\/34975","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=34975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34976,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions\/34976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}