{"id":40309,"date":"2022-01-04T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/arrests-after-female-muslim-activists-put-up-for-sale-in-fake-auction-in-india"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:22:47","slug":"arrests-after-female-muslim-activists-put-up-for-sale-in-fake-auction-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40309","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after female Muslim activists \u2018put up for sale\u2019 in fake auction in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women say website aims to punish journalists, academics and artists drawing attention to hate speech<\/p>\n<p>Police in India have detained a woman accused of organising a fake online auction in which hundreds of prominent female Muslims were put up \u201cfor sale\u201d on a website.<\/p>\n<p>There were shock waves of anger and disgust in India after it emerged that a website calling itself Bulli Bai, an offensive term for Muslims, had set up a pretend auction of more than 100 Muslim women, including journalists, academics, activists, scholars and artists, where they were to be \u201csold\u201d as servants for negligible sums.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/arrests-after-female-muslim-activists-put-up-for-sale-in-fake-auction-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women say website aims to punish journalists, academics and artists drawing attention to hate speechPolice in India have detained a woman accused of organising a fake online auction in which hundreds of prominent female Muslims were put up \u201cfor sale\u201d o&#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":[646,62,351,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-india","category-internet","category-religion","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\/40309","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=40309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions\/40310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}