{"id":77278,"date":"2018-02-08T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/people-in-herat-stage-a-reenactment-of-surayas-public-lashing\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:33:46","slug":"people-in-herat-stage-a-reenactment-of-surayas-public-lashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/people-in-herat-stage-a-reenactment-of-surayas-public-lashing\/","title":{"rendered":"People in Herat stage a reenactment of Suraya\u2019s public lashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"346\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/2- Feb\/8\/suraia.jpg\" width=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">HERAT (SW): Dozens of women&rsquo;s rights activists, civil society activists and a number of religious scholars gathered to condemn the public lashing of 22-year-old Suraya in Takhar by staging a reenactment of the public lashing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">The religious scholars said that the desert court or public lashing does not have a legal and religious basis. The protesters demanded the arrest of the perpetrators of violence against Suraya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">The protesters in a statement urged the government to stop violence against women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">A group of angry men brutally lashed Suraya a few days ago, while violently punching and kicking her until she lost consciousness. The video of 22-year-old Suraya being publically lashed by a group of men in Takhar province went viral on social media causing an uproar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">The incident occurred in the village of Rabat Hamdin in Chahab district of Takhar, under the control of the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">ENDS<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<\/style>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of women\u2019s rights activists, civil society activists and a number of religious scholars gathered to condemn the public lashing of 22-year-old Suraya in Takhar by staging a reenactment of the public lashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}