{"id":40052,"date":"2019-07-10T23:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40052"},"modified":"2019-07-10T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T23:23:54","slug":"minaj-cancels-show-in-conservative-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40052","title":{"rendered":"Minaj cancels show in conservative kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The Human Rights Foundation is applauding Nicki Minaj&#8217;s decision to back out of a concert in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/01\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Minaj was scheduled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/03\/us\/nicki-minaj-saudi-arabia-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">to headline the Jeddah World Fest<\/a>, a music and performance festival, on July 18.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Saudi Arabia is a conservative kingdom where people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/11\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-breakfast-arrest-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">some public places are segregated by gender<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/07\/health\/same-sex-relationships-worldwide-list-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">same-sex relationships are criminalized<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The Human Rights Foundation is applauding Nicki Minaj&#8217;s decision to back out of a concert in Saudi Arabia.Minaj was scheduled to headline the Jeddah World Fest, a music and performance festival, on July 18.Saudi Arabia is a conservative kingdom where people in some public places are segregated by gender and same-sex relationships are criminalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40052","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\/40052","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=40052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}