{"id":134062,"date":"2015-07-13T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=134062"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:48:51","slug":"moroccan-women-freed-over-wearing-skirts-in-inezgane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=134062","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan women &#8216;freed&#8217; over wearing skirts in Inezgane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Two Morocco women have been acquitted of indecency charges after they went on trial for wearing short skirts, their lawyer says.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested on 16 June in a market in Inezgane, near Agadir, after being heckled by market traders.<\/p>\n<p>Their case sparked a national outcry and an internet petition calling the arrest an attack on personal freedom attracted thousands of signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of lawyers offered to defend the women in court.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s rights campaigner Fouzia Assouli told the AFP news agency the acquittal showed that wearing a skirt &#8220;is not a crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Moroccan news site Tel Quel quotes the women&#8217;s lawyer, Houcine Bekkar Sbai, as saying that the next step is to prosecute the people who harassed them in the market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Morocco women have been acquitted of indecency charges after they went on trial for wearing short skirts, their lawyer says. They were arrested on 16 June in a market in Inezgane, near Agadir, after being heckled by market traders. Their case sparked a national outcry and an internet petition calling the arrest an attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":134126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-134062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}