{"id":12315,"date":"2016-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/factsheet-self-immolations\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:00:00","slug":"factsheet-self-immolations","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/factsheet-self-immolations\/","title":{"rendered":"Factsheet &#8211; Self-immolations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/Self-Immolations-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Self-Immolations-724x1024.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In an act driven by the anguish of oppression and separation from the exiled Dalai Lama, over 140 Tibetans have set fire to themselves in Tibet and China in  one  of  the  biggest  waves  of  self-immolation  as political protest globally in the past 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/Self-Immolations.pdf\">Click here to download the full factsheet in PDF.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an act driven by the anguish of oppression and separation from the exiled Dalai Lama, over 140 Tibetans have set fire to themselves in Tibet and China in  one  of  the  biggest  waves  of  self-immolation  as political protest globally in the past 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12316,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[684],"news_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12315","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-ict-publicationsfact-sheets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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