{"id":23040,"date":"2018-11-24T07:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23040"},"modified":"2018-11-24T07:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T07:22:50","slug":"report-europes-rape-laws-dangerous-and-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23040","title":{"rendered":"Report: Europe&#8217;s rape laws &#8216;dangerous and outdated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Rape laws across Europe are &#8220;dangerous and outdated,&#8221; according to new analysis from human rights group Amnesty International. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The study found that out of 31 European countries, only eight &#8212; Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg and Sweden &#8212; have laws that define sex without consent as rape. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The overwhelming majority of countries in Europe recognize rape only when physical violence, threat or coercion is involved, Amnesty said, adding that some countries classify sex without consent as a separate, less serious offense. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Rape laws across Europe are &#8220;dangerous and outdated,&#8221; according to new analysis from human rights group Amnesty International. The study found that out of 31 European countries, only eight &#8212; Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg and Sweden &#8212; have laws that define sex without consent as rape. The overwhelming majority of countries&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23040","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\/23040","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=23040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}