{"id":7455,"date":"2015-04-20T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/boy-beaten-by-teachers\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:23:56","slug":"boy-beaten-by-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/boy-beaten-by-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Beaten By Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Mosque Teachers Mohammed Waqar and Mohammed Siddique Are Accused of Assault<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boy-beaten-by-teachers-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">Two teachers from a Birmingham mosque are facing allegations of assault after beating a ten-year-old student.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">Mohammed Waqar, 23, and Mohammed Siddique, 60, are accused of beating the young boy for reciting the Quran incorrectly at Jamia Mosque in Anderton Road, Sparkbrook, where the pair taught.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">The alleged victim is said to have been repeatedly slapped for making mistakes in his religious studies and is claimed to have suffered a black eye on one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">Mr Waqar and Mr Siddique, both of Olton Boulevard West, were arrested by officers last June and are due to stand trial at Birmingham Crown Court on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">Both men had pleaded not guilty to the offence of cruelty to a person under 16 at the same court on April 1, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">No one from the mosque was available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosque Teachers Mohammed Waqar and Mohammed Siddique Are Accused of Assault Two teachers from a Birmingham mosque are facing allegations of assault after beating a ten-year-old student. &#13; Mohammed Waqar, 23, and Mohammed Siddique, 60, are accused of beating the young boy for reciting the Quran incorrectly at Jamia Mosque in Anderton Road, Sparkbrook, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}