{"id":66233,"date":"2024-08-15T21:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/15\/indian-women-march-reclaim-the-night-doctor-rape-murder-protests-womens-safety"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:04:29","slug":"indian-women-march-to-reclaim-the-night-after-doctors-rape-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66233","title":{"rendered":"Indian women march to \u2018reclaim the night\u2019 after doctor\u2019s rape and murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests reflect anger at 31-year-old\u2019s killing, as well as a failure to address the daily struggles faced by many women<\/p>\n<p>At the stroke of midnight, thousands of women holding flaming torches and blowing conch shells began to march through dark streets across the state of West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>The processions in the early hours of the morning on Thursday 15 August, India\u2019s Independence Day, were part of several days of protest against the brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor inside a hospital in the state capital, Kolkata, last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/15\/indian-women-march-reclaim-the-night-doctor-rape-murder-protests-womens-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests reflect anger at 31-year-old\u2019s killing, as well as a failure to address the daily struggles faced by many womenAt the stroke of midnight, thousands of women holding flaming torches and blowing conch shells began to march through dark streets a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[59,62,440,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-sexual-violence","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\/66233","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233\/revisions\/66234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}