{"id":48516,"date":"2022-09-15T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/15\/india-uttar-pradesh-teenage-sisters-raped-murdered"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:04:17","slug":"india-two-teenage-sisters-raped-and-murdered-in-uttar-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48516","title":{"rendered":"India: two teenage sisters raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six men charged over deadly attack on girls, aged 15 and 17, of Dalit caste<\/p>\n<p>Two sisters in Uttar Pradesh have been found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in the latest incident of sexual violence to shock India.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of the girls, aged 15 and 17, were found suspended from a tree by their shawls near their home in Lakhimpur district on Wednesday afternoon. They belonged to the Dalit caste, the lowest in India\u2019s hierarchical and discriminatory Hindu caste system, which used to deem Dalits as \u201cuntouchables\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/15\/india-uttar-pradesh-teenage-sisters-raped-murdered\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six men charged over deadly attack on girls, aged 15 and 17, of Dalit casteTwo sisters in Uttar Pradesh have been found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in the latest incident of sexual violence to shock India.The bodies of the girls, aged 15 an&#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":[62,242,61,2410,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48516","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","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\/48516","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=48516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48517,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48516\/revisions\/48517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}