{"id":27707,"date":"2019-01-02T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27707"},"modified":"2019-01-02T06:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:22:30","slug":"indian-women-form-620-km-human-chain-in-support-of-temple-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27707","title":{"rendered":"Indian women form 620 km human chain in support of temple equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi  (CNN)<\/cite>Tens of thousands of women in the Indian state of Kerala have formed a series of human chains extending an estimated 620 kilometers (385 miles) as a show of solidarity in protest at a refusal to admit women to the Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism&#8217;s holiest sites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">India&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/28\/asia\/india-temple-women-banned-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> in September<\/a> that the centuries-old ban on women deemed to be of menstrual age &#8212; defined as from 10 to 50 &#8212; was unconstitutional. But religious protesters have so far made it difficult to enforce the ruling. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear petitions to revise its order later this month.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The state government organized the so-called &#8220;women&#8217;s wall&#8221; Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/to-counter-sabarimala-protests-50-lakh-women-turn-up-for-womens-wall-to-showcase-equality-1988705.html?ref=hp_top_pos_11\" target=\"_blank\">according to CNN affiliate CNN News 18<\/a>. The chains were formed for about 15 minutes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)Tens of thousands of women in the Indian state of Kerala have formed a series of human chains extending an estimated 620 kilometers (385 miles) as a show of solidarity in protest at a refusal to admit women to the Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism&#8217;s holiest sites.India&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled in September that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27707","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\/27707","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=27707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}