{"id":18520,"date":"2018-10-15T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18520"},"modified":"2018-10-15T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:24:29","slug":"indian-minister-defiant-amid-metoo-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18520","title":{"rendered":"Indian minister defiant amid #MeToo storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN)<\/cite>An Indian government minister has hit back at a series of allegations of sexual harassment, rejecting calls to step down, after he became the most prominent public figure to be named in what&#8217;s been dubbed India&#8217;s #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">MJ Akbar, junior minister for foreign affairs in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government and a former influential newspaper editor, has over the past week been accused by former female colleagues of groping, assault and harassment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Responding to the allegations after returning to the Indian capital from an official visit abroad, Akbar called the allegations &#8220;false and fabricated&#8221; and questioned their timing, hinting at a political campaign against him as India prepares for general elections next year. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)An Indian government minister has hit back at a series of allegations of sexual harassment, rejecting calls to step down, after he became the most prominent public figure to be named in what&#8217;s been dubbed India&#8217;s #MeToo movement.MJ Akbar, junior minister for foreign affairs in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government and a former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}