{"id":11105,"date":"2019-10-24T11:33:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=11105"},"modified":"2019-10-24T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:33:57","slug":"16-sentenced-to-death-after-bangladesh-teen-burnt-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/11105","title":{"rendered":"16 Sentenced to Death After Bangladesh Teen Burnt Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladesh court has sentenced 16 people to death for the murder of a student set on fire after accusing her teacher of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The trial has been one of the quickest in a country where such cases usually take years to conclude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law,\u201d prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told reporters after the verdict in a crowded courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Nusrat was lured to her school&#8217;s rooftop on 6 April this year, 11 days after she reported the headmaster, Siraj Ud Doula, to police for repeatedly touching her inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>She was then surrounded by four or five people wearing burqas, pressuring her to withdraw her complaint.<\/p>\n<p>When she refused, Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire by them.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, they had hoped to make it look like a suicide. Instead, she was rescued.<\/p>\n<p>The death of 19-year-old Rafi in April this year sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promising to fast-track the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladesh court has sentenced 16 people to death for the murder of a student set on fire after accusing her teacher of sexual harassment. The trial has been one of the quickest in a country where such cases usually take years to conclude. \u201cThe verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11107,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions\/11107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}