{"id":47899,"date":"2022-08-28T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/protests-in-india-over-release-of-11-men-jailed-for-gang"},"modified":"2022-08-28T10:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:02:54","slug":"protests-in-india-over-release-of-11-men-jailed-for-gang-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47899","title":{"rendered":"Protests in India over release of 11 men jailed for gang rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators demand Gujarat government revoke decision on men convicted over rape of Muslim woman Bilkis Bano in 2002<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have held demonstrations in several parts of India to protest against a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India\u2019s 2002 religious riots.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters in the country\u2019s capital, New Delhi, chanted slogans on Saturday and demanded the government in the western state of Gujarat rescind the decision. They also sang songs in solidarity with the victim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/protests-in-india-over-release-of-11-men-jailed-for-gang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators demand Gujarat government revoke decision on men convicted over rape of Muslim woman Bilkis Bano in 2002Hundreds of people have held demonstrations in several parts of India to protest against a recent government decision to free 11 men w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1694,"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":[62,242,61,2410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47899","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\/1694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47900,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47899\/revisions\/47900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}