{"id":8241,"date":"2016-08-29T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:56:07","slug":"the-toplessright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/the-toplessright\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;topless&#8221;right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bare With Us&#8221; these are boobs not bombs said the women . A peaceful protest in Waterloo was designed to raise awareness about women&#8217;s right to go topless in public. The potestors also paraded and protested topless.Although Ontario women have had the legal right to go shirtless for nearly two decades, they \u201care still not truly free to be topless in public, without facing harassment from passersby and in some cases, uninformed police officers,\u201d the rally organizers said on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8243\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/breast-600x365.png\" alt=\"breast\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" \/><br \/>\nHundreds of people, topless women among them, have taken part in a rally organized by three sisters who were allegedly stopped by police in Canada for cycling topless recently. Women in Ontario have had the right to go topless in public since 1996.<br \/>\nMusician Alysha Brilla (a Juno-nominated singer\/songwriter of Indo-Tanzanian-Canadian origin) said she and her two sisters, Tameera and Nadia, were shirtless when riding their bikes in Kitchener on July 24. A male police officer drove up beside them and allegedly told them to cover up \u201cbecause it is the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8245 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/unnamed-4.png\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"565\" height=\"762\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brilla told the cop he was mistaken, and when she started filming the interaction on her cell phone, the officer reportedly backed off, saying he had only wanted to check whether the three women had proper bells and lights on their bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bare With Us&#8221; these are boobs not bombs said the women . A peaceful protest in Waterloo was designed to raise awareness about women&#8217;s right to go topless in public. The potestors also paraded and protested topless.Although Ontario women have had the legal right to go shirtless for nearly two decades, they \u201care still not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,2],"tags":[3407,3405,3406,3404,3409,3408],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gossips","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-awareness","tag-boobs-not-bombs","tag-peaceful-protest","tag-the-toplessright","tag-topless-in-public","tag-womens-right"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}