{"id":51572,"date":"2022-12-30T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/30\/pakistan-court-frees-rapist-after-he-agrees-deal-to-marry-his-victim"},"modified":"2022-12-30T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:22:35","slug":"anger-as-pakistan-court-frees-rapist-after-he-agrees-deal-to-marry-his-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51572","title":{"rendered":"Anger as Pakistan court frees rapist after he agrees deal to marry his victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise <\/p>\n<p>A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.<\/p>\n<p>Dawlat Khan, 25, had been sentenced to life imprisonment in May by the district court of Buner, in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for the rape of a young deaf woman.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/30\/pakistan-court-frees-rapist-after-he-agrees-deal-to-marry-his-victim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.Dawlat Khan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"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":[86,60,242,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-pakistan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/51572","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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51573,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51572\/revisions\/51573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}