{"id":2643,"date":"2014-06-14T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2014-06-14T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T07:44:11","slug":"al-shabab-militants-somalia-impose-strict-dress-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/al-shabab-militants-somalia-impose-strict-dress-code\/","title":{"rendered":"al-Shabab militants in Somalia impose strict dress code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab militants have rounded up around 100 women and ordered them to comply with a strict Islamic dress code or risk being whipped.<\/p>\n<p>The women were arrested in Buale, about 300km (185 miles) south-west of the capital, Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Somali analyst Mohamed Mohamed says it is rare for al-Shabab to carry out such mass arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda-linked group controls much of southern and central parts of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The women were arrested in the market, taken away and warned before being released.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was their first offence, they were not punished but they could be whipped in public if caught again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-27829343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab militants have rounded up around 100 women and ordered them to comply with a strict Islamic dress code or risk being whipped. The women were arrested in Buale, about 300km (185 miles) south-west of the capital, Mogadishu. BBC Somali analyst Mohamed Mohamed says it is rare for al-Shabab to carry out such mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[300,253],"tags":[258,256,499,749,750,4695,257,752,4690,442,254,751,753],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-east-africa","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabab","tag-al-shabab-militants","tag-buale","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-risk-being-whipped","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strict-islamic-dress-code","tag-women-were-arrested-in-buale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}