{"id":1035,"date":"2017-11-16T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2017-11-16T23:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:12:59","slug":"libya-people-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/11\/16\/libya-people-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya People for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><strong>Tripoli, Libya (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; &#8220;Eight hundred,&#8221; says the auctioneer. &#8220;900 &#8230; 1,000 &#8230; 1,100 &#8230;&#8221; Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars &#8212; the equivalent of $800.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not &#8220;merchandise&#8221; at all, but two human beings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained by CNN is Nigerian. He appears to be in his twenties and is wearing a pale shirt and sweatpants.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He has been offered up for sale as one of a group of &#8220;big strong boys for farm work,&#8221; according to the auctioneer, who remains off camera. Only his hand &#8212; resting proprietorially on the man&#8217;s shoulder &#8212; is visible in the brief clip.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><!--more--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripoli, Libya (CNN) &#8212; &#8220;Eight hundred,&#8221; says the auctioneer. &#8220;900 &#8230; 1,000 &#8230; 1,100 &#8230;&#8221; Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars &#8212; the equivalent of $800. Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not &#8220;merchandise&#8221; at all, but two human beings. One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/11\/16\/libya-people-for-sale\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}