{"id":41661,"date":"2022-02-13T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/man-stoned-to-death-in-pakistan-after-desecrating-quran"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:19:41","slug":"man-stoned-to-death-in-pakistan-after-desecrating-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41661","title":{"rendered":"Mob stones mentally ill man to death for \u2018desecrating Qur\u2019an\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witness alleges he saw man burning Muslim holy book inside mosque in village in Punjab province<\/p>\n<p>An angry mob stoned to death a mentally ill man in Pakistan, authorities have said, in the country\u2019s latest case of blasphemy-related violence.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have been arrested over the lynching, which happened on Saturday evening in a remote village in Punjab province, after it was alleged that the victim had burned some pages of the Qur\u2019an, according to Tahir Ashrafi, the prime minister\u2019s special representative on religious harmony.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/man-stoned-to-death-in-pakistan-after-desecrating-quran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witness alleges he saw man burning Muslim holy book inside mosque in village in Punjab provinceAn angry mob stoned to death a mentally ill man in Pakistan, authorities have said, in the country\u2019s latest case of blasphemy-related violence.Dozens of peop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"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":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/41661","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\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661\/revisions\/41679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}