{"id":25509,"date":"2011-08-11T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25509"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:55:37","slug":"pakistan-art-curator-beaten-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25509","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Art curator beaten by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 August, a\u00a0 <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/pakistan\/\">Pakistani<\/a> police station supervisor allegedly <a href=\" http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/08\/10\/art-curator-beaten-by-pak_n_922818.html\">beat a female curator <\/a>for &#8220;indecent behavior&#8221;. The incident occurred in Nairang Art Gallery, a well-known gathering place for left-leaning intellectuals in Lahore. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrcp-web.org\/showprel.asp?id=226\">Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP<\/a>), the officer &#8220;brutally assaulted&#8221; the woman and entered the premises without a warrant. Hina Jilani, a prominent\u00a0activist and human rights lawyer, told the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2011%5C08%5C08%5Cstory_8-8-2011_pg13_7\">Daily Times<\/a> that the attack on one of the few remaining cultural\u00a0and intellectual hubs of Lahore was an example of increasing religious extremism in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 August, a\u00a0 Pakistani police station supervisor allegedly beat a female curator for &#8220;indecent behavior&#8221;. The incident occurred in Nairang Art Gallery, a well-known gathering place for left-leaning intellectuals in Lahore. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the officer &#8220;brutally assaulted&#8221; the woman and entered the premises without a warrant. Hina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[3632,7351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79173,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions\/79173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}