{"id":2812,"date":"2016-10-21T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/south-korea-court-frees-jehovahs-witnesses-who-refused-to-serve-in-military\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T08:39:55","slug":"south-korea-court-frees-jehovahs-witnesses-who-refused-to-serve-in-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/south-korea-court-frees-jehovahs-witnesses-who-refused-to-serve-in-military\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea court frees Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses who refused to serve in military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two South Korean men who refused to do military service have had their convictions overturned in a landmark ruling against the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6280\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imgs.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imgs-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imgs-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cho Rak Hoon and Kim Hyung Geun were freed by an appeals court in the southern city of Gwangju today. They had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for refusing military service at their trials, in June 2015 and May 2016 respectively, according to Amnesty International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two South Korean men who refused to do military service have had their convictions overturned in a landmark ruling against the government. Cho Rak Hoon and Kim Hyung Geun were freed by an appeals court&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6282,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/6282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}