{"id":1258,"date":"2017-04-24T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:10:30","slug":"lebanon-rape-law-wedding-dresses-hang-in-beirut-sea-front-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/lebanon-rape-law-wedding-dresses-hang-in-beirut-sea-front-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Activists campaigning to change Lebanon&#8217;s law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut&#8217;s famous sea front.<\/p>\n<p>What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese law currently allows a rapist to be exonerated if he marries his victim.<\/p>\n<p>The activists are pressing to have the legislation abolished at an upcoming session of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Women&#8217;s Affairs Jean Oghassabian described the article as being &#8220;from the stone age&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 31 days in a month and every single day, a woman may be raped and forced to marry her rapist,&#8221; said Alia Awada from the non-governmental organisation Abaad.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal to scrap Article 522 of the penal code, which deals with rape, assault, kidnapping and forced marriage, was introduced last year and approved by a parliamentary committee in February.http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-39680838<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists campaigning to change Lebanon&#8217;s law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut&#8217;s famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law currently allows a rapist to be exonerated if he marries his victim. The activists are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forced-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}