{"id":106033,"date":"2020-04-25T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/saudi-arabia-to-abolish-flogging"},"modified":"2020-04-25T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:02:29","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-abolish-flogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/saudi-arabia-to-abolish-flogging","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to abolish flogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saudi-arabia-to-abolish-flogging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The directive from the Gulf kingdom\u2019s Supreme Court says flogging will be replaced by imprisonment or fines.<\/p>\n<p>It says this is an extension of human rights reforms brought by King Salman and his son, the country\u2019s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom\u2019s Supreme Court says flogging will be replaced by imprisonment or fines. It says this is an extension of human rights reforms brought by King Salman and his son, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}