{"id":38959,"date":"2019-04-12T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38959"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:23:27","slug":"upskirting-now-a-crime-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38959","title":{"rendered":"Upskirting now a crime in England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London  (CNN)<\/cite>Upskirting is now a criminal offense in England and Wales, after a campaign by a woman who was targeted by an offender at a music festival. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The offense &#8212; which involves taking a photo under an individual&#8217;s clothing with the intention of viewing their underwear, genitals or buttocks without their knowledge &#8212; will be punishable by up to two years&#8217; imprisonment, with the most serious offenders being placed on the sex offenders&#8217; registers, Britain&#8217;s Ministry of Justice said Friday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We have always been clear &#8212; there are no excuses for this behavior and offenders should feel the full force of the law. From today, they will,&#8221; Justice Minister Lucy Frazer said in a statement.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)Upskirting is now a criminal offense in England and Wales, after a campaign by a woman who was targeted by an offender at a music festival. The offense &#8212; which involves taking a photo under an individual&#8217;s clothing with the intention of viewing their underwear, genitals or buttocks without their knowledge &#8212; will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38959","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\/38959","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=38959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}