{"id":33732,"date":"2019-03-01T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33732"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:25:45","slug":"death-penalty-examined-at-belgium-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33732","title":{"rendered":"Death penalty examined at Belgium forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"73\">\n<p>Education campaigns, art exhibits and petition signing have all been part of the World Congress against the Death Penalty in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 prisoners are on &#8220;death row&#8221;, but 114 countries have abolished capital punishment and 32 others have introduced a moratorium.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi defended his country&#8217;s use of execution by saying that his country had a &#8220;different culture&#8221;, but abolitionist campaigners see it as a political and human rights debate, and one that is slowly shifting.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Paul Brennan reports from Brussels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education campaigns, art exhibits and petition signing have all been part of the World Congress against the Death Penalty in Brussels. More than 20,000 prisoners are on &#8220;death row&#8221;, but 114 countries have abolished capital punishment and 32 others have introduced a moratorium. Just this week, Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi defended his country&#8217;s use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33732","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\/33732","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=33732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}