{"id":330872,"date":"2017-10-17T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-muslim-teen-raped-killed-near-virginia-mosque\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:44:15","slug":"presstv-muslim-teen-raped-killed-near-virginia-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-muslim-teen-raped-killed-near-virginia-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Muslim teen raped, killed near Virginia mosque&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The brutal murder of a teenage Muslim girl in the US state of Virginia has turned into a capital murder and rape case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s indictment includes capital murder and rape charges and will allow prosecutors to pursue a death-penalty case against Darwin Martinez Torres, 22.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez is charged with the murder of<strong> <\/strong>Nabra Hassanen,<strong> <\/strong>whose death sparked outrage among Muslim communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Before Monday\u2019s indictment, police said the killing was being investigated as a road rage incident. But Nabra&#8217;s father rejected the police theory and said his daughter was attacked because she was Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 supporters wearing &#8220;Justice for Nabra&#8221; T-shirts showed up at a preliminary hearing of Toress on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171017\/4f3d9d7b-ce45-4a9a-be07-65d1f62e9385.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>Nabra Hassanen&#8217;s mother (L) and father. (file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Virginia law, prosecutors are allowed to pursue a death penalty case only under certain conditions, including murder in the commission of a rape and murder&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/17\/538923\/Muslim-teen-slain-walking-to-Virginia-mosque-was-also-raped-indictment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brutal murder of a teenage Muslim girl in the US state of Virginia has turned into a capital murder and rape case. Monday\u2019s indictment includes capital murder and rape charges and will allow prosecutors to pursue a death-penalty case against Darwin Martinez Torres, 22. Martinez is charged with the murder of Nabra Hassanen, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}