{"id":1801,"date":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/24\/2002-03-24-fiji-bans-corporal-punishment-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-24T12:00:00","slug":"2002-03-24-fiji-bans-corporal-punishment-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/24\/2002-03-24-fiji-bans-corporal-punishment-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Bans Corporal Punishment in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/goasiapacific.com\/news\/GoAsiaPacificBNP_511285.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p> SUVA, FIJI, March 22, 2002: Fiji&#8217;s High Court has banned corporal punishment, saying it&#8217;s a breach of their constitution. In a landmark ruling, judge Jayant Prekash said the provisions of corporal punishment in the criminal procedure code and in the Ministry of Education guidelines contravene the constitution. The ruling follows a submission from the Human Rights Commission challenging the handing out of corporal punishment.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SUVA, FIJI, March 22, 2002: Fiji&#8217;s High Court has banned corporal punishment, saying it&#8217;s a breach of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}