{"id":3239,"date":"2020-07-01T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/teens-murder-sparks-controversy-in\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:40:01","slug":"teens-murder-sparks-controversy-in","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/teens-murder-sparks-controversy-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen\u2019s Murder Sparks Controversy In Iran"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murder of a teenage girl in Iran by her father has led to a reexamination of the status of women in the harshly Islamic republic.<\/p>\n<p>Romina Ashrafi, 14, was beheaded by her father, Reza Ashrafi, after he learned of her plan to run off with her 29-year-old boyfriend. Child marriages are common in Iran, but in this case Ashrafi disliked the man and refused to allow his daughter to see him. When Romina persisted, he murdered her in what has been called an \u201chonor killing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[105],"cs_article_type":[157],"class_list":["post-3239","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-july-august-2020-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-au-bulletin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}