{"id":35118,"date":"2021-08-12T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/pakistan-police-drop-blasphemy-charges-against-boy-8"},"modified":"2021-08-12T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:17:48","slug":"pakistan-police-drop-blasphemy-charges-against-eight-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35118","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan police drop blasphemy charges against eight-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu boy, accused of urinating in madrassa library, was youngest Pakistani to be charged for the crime<\/p>\n<p>Police in Pakistan have dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/09\/eight-year-old-becomes-youngest-person-charged-with-blasphemy-in-pakistan\">blasphemy charges<\/a> against an eight-year-old Hindu boy after media and government pressure over his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The boy, the youngest Pakistani ever to be charged with the crime, was accused of intentionally urinating on a carpet in the library of a madrassa, where religious books were kept, in July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/pakistan-police-drop-blasphemy-charges-against-boy-8\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu boy, accused of urinating in madrassa library, was youngest Pakistani to be charged for the crimePolice in Pakistan have dropped blasphemy charges against an eight-year-old Hindu boy after media and government pressure over his arrest.The boy, th&#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":[913,245,59,516,447,60,1929,371,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-rights","category-children","category-global-development","category-hinduism","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-pakistans-blasphemy-laws","category-religion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35118","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=35118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118\/revisions\/35119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}