{"id":34849,"date":"2013-04-04T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2013-04-04T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:04:20","slug":"global-post-britain-urges-saudi-arabia-not-to-paralyse-convict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/04\/global-post-britain-urges-saudi-arabia-not-to-paralyse-convict\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Post: Britain urges Saudi Arabia not to paralyse convict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia not to carry out the &#8220;grotesque&#8221; punishment of paralysis for a man whose alleged crime took place when he was just 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Ali al-Khawahir, 24, has reportedly been sentenced to &#8220;Qisas&#8221; (retribution) for allegedly paralysing a friend when he stabbed him in the back 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He could be paralysed from the waist down if he fails to pay compensation of one million riyals ($270,000), rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday citing Saudi media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Office said it was deeply concerned by the reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge the Saudi authorities to ensure that this grotesque punishment is not carried out,&#8221; a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such practices are prohibited under international law and have no place in any society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty said paralysis as punishment would be akin to torture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/afp\/130404\/britain-urges-saudi-arabia-not-paralyse-convict\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia not to carry out the &#8220;grotesque&#8221; punishment of paralysis for a man whose alleged crime took place when he was just 14 years old. Ali al-Khawahir, 24, has reportedly been sentenced to &#8220;Qisas&#8221; (retribution) for allegedly paralysing a friend when he stabbed him in the back 10 years ago. [&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-34849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849","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=34849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}