{"id":5248,"date":"2019-07-31T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/31\/triple-talaq-india-hails-historic-day-as-parliament-outlaws-islamic-instant-divorce"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T01:28:24","slug":"historic-day-as-india-outlaws-triple-talaq-islamic-instant-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Historic&#8217; day as India outlaws &#8216;triple talaq&#8217; Islamic instant divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister says women now have justice but Muslim groups accuse Hindu-led government of community interference<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s parliament has approved a bill outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife, drawing accusations of government interference in a community matter. <\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist administration has been pushing to criminalise \u201ctriple talaq\u201d, under which a man can divorce by uttering the word \u201ctalaq\u201d, meaning divorce in Arabic, three times in his wife\u2019s presence. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/31\/triple-talaq-india-hails-historic-day-as-parliament-outlaws-islamic-instant-divorce\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister says women now have justice but Muslim groups accuse Hindu-led government of community interferenceIndia\u2019s parliament has approved a bill outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife, drawing accusations of g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[484,62,371,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}