{"id":4561,"date":"2014-07-30T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:48:51","slug":"somali-woman-killed-for-not-wearing-veil-relatives-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somali-woman-killed-for-not-wearing-veil-relatives-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali woman killed for not wearing veil, relatives say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say.<\/p>\n<p>The nomadic woman was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of Hosingow by gunmen belonging to the al-Shabab group, they added.<\/p>\n<p>The militants had ordered her to put on a veil, and then killed her after returning and finding she was still not wearing one, the relatives said.<\/p>\n<p>An al-Shabab spokesman denied the group had killed the woman&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28564984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say. The nomadic woman was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of Hosingow by gunmen belonging to the al-Shabab group, they added. The militants had ordered her to put on a veil, and then [&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":[253],"tags":[258,256,499,4695,565,3027,3317,257,3316,4690,442,254],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabab","tag-east-africa","tag-islamists","tag-militant-islamists","tag-muslim-woman","tag-news","tag-refusing-to-wear-a-veil","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","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=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/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=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}