{"id":39005,"date":"2021-11-17T23:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/17\/people-should-be-helped-not-punished-could-pakistans-suicide-law-be-about-to-change"},"modified":"2021-11-17T23:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:03:40","slug":"people-should-be-helped-not-punished-could-pakistans-suicide-law-be-about-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39005","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People should be helped, not punished\u2019: could Pakistan\u2019s suicide law be about to change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminalisation means survivors are vulnerable to blackmail to avoid imprisonment and stigma, but there is hope the colonial-era legislation could soon be repealed<\/p>\n<p>It was when the police knocked on Aatifa Farooqui\u2019s* door and threatened to send her to prison that she first realised suicide was illegal in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Farooqui\u2019s father pleaded with the officers to be lenient, explaining that his daughter was just 19 and had made a mistake, but quickly realised the police had other motives for dropping by.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/17\/people-should-be-helped-not-punished-could-pakistans-suicide-law-be-about-to-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminalisation means survivors are vulnerable to blackmail to avoid imprisonment and stigma, but there is hope the colonial-era legislation could soon be repealedIt was when the police knocked on Aatifa Farooqui\u2019s* door and threatened to send her to p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2108,"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":[59,346,744,60,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-mental-health","category-pakistan","category-society","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\/39005","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\/2108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39006,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39005\/revisions\/39006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}