{"id":33492,"date":"2013-01-09T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33492"},"modified":"2013-01-09T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:20:40","slug":"bbc-sri-lankan-maid-rizana-nafeek-beheaded-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/01\/09\/bbc-sri-lankan-maid-rizana-nafeek-beheaded-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek beheaded in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Sri Lankan domestic worker for killing a baby in her care in 2005 in a case that has been widely condemned by rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>The maid, Rizana Nafeek, had denied killing the four-month-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Her supporters say she was only 17 at the time of the killing. They say her execution is a breach of international child rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan government condemned the execution, which it said took place despite numerous clemency pleas.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi interior ministry said on Wednesday that Ms Nafeek was executed for smothering the infant after an argument with the child&#8217;s mother in the town of al-Dwadmi.<\/p>\n<p>Click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-20959228\" title=\"Saudi Arabia Beheads Sri Lankan Woman\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Sri Lankan domestic worker for killing a baby in her care in 2005 in a case that has been widely condemned by rights groups. The maid, Rizana Nafeek, had denied killing the four-month-old boy. Her supporters say she was only 17 at the time of the killing. They say her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33493,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492\/revisions\/33493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}