{"id":216,"date":"2008-07-10T18:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/07\/10\/rape_campaigners_oppose_anonymous_testimony"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:11:56","slug":"rape_campaigners_oppose_anonymous_testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/07\/10\/rape_campaigners_oppose_anonymous_testimony","title":{"rendered":"Rape campaigners oppose anonymous testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/07\/08\/geoffrey_robertson_there_can_b\">Tuesday&#39;s post<\/a> about the threat posed by anonymous court testimony, there is a letter in today&#39;s paper, in reply to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/jul\/08\/justice.law\">the article<\/a> I blogged, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2008\/jul\/10\/justice.civilliberties\">two rape campaigners<\/a> (Cristel Amiss of the Black Women&#39;s Rape Action Project and Ruth Hall of Women Against Rape) regarding the threat such testimonies already pose in the workplace disciplinary field; namely, that they know of a woman facing dismissal because of anonymous accusations, which she cannot counter, which she suspects emanate from the man she says raped her.  (There&#39;s also one from John Laughland &#8211; a well-known dictators&#39; defender &#8211; about its use in war crimes tribunals.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to Tuesday&#39;s post about the threat posed by anonymous court testimony, there is a letter in today&#39;s paper, in reply to the article I blogged, from two rape campaigners (Cristel Amiss of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil_liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-3u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41806,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/41806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}