{"id":21629,"date":"2018-11-08T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21629"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:23:50","slug":"at-least-13-killed-in-tajikistan-prison-riot-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21629","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 killed in Tajikistan prison riot: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"69.4819897084\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Security forces in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/tajikistan.html\"> Tajikistan<\/a> have killed at least 13 inmates at a prison in the city of Khujand where a riot broke out late on Wednesday, three security sources told Reuters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The city government, contacted by Reuters, confirmed there had been a riot, but provided no other information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Khujand is about 300km north of capital, Dushanbe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In 1997, <span>security forces reportedly killed\u00a0<\/span><span>at least 24 people after<\/span>\u00a0a riot broke out in Khujand prison,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/legacy\/advocacy\/prisons\/killings.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> according to a Human Rights Watch report<\/a>. Non-governmental sources, however, claimed that as many as 100 prisoners were killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces in Tajikistan have killed at least 13 inmates at a prison in the city of Khujand where a riot broke out late on Wednesday, three security sources told Reuters on Thursday. The city government, contacted by Reuters, confirmed there had been a riot, but provided no other information. Khujand is about 300km north&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","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=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}