{"id":27562,"date":"2016-08-09T01:59:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rio-2016-second-boxer-held-over-alleged-sex\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T01:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:58:48","slug":"rio-2016-second-boxer-held-over-alleged-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rio-2016-second-boxer-held-over-alleged-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio 2016: Second boxer held over alleged sex assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A Namibian boxer has been arrested by Brazilian police on suspicion of attempting to sexually assault a maid in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic village.}<\/p>\n<p>She alleged Jonas Junius, 22, had grabbed her and tried to kiss her. She also accused him of offering her money to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>Junius is competing in the light-welterweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Moroccan boxer was arrested by police after allegedly assaulting two female cleaners.<\/p>\n<p>A Brazilian judge has ordered Hassan Saada to be detained for 15 days, pending an investigation, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p>This could mean Saada is unable to take part in the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Junius, Namibia&#8217;s flag-bearer in the opening ceremony last Friday, is scheduled to fight French boxer Hassan Anzille on 11 August.<\/p>\n<p>But that could also be in doubt if he has to remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes from 206 nations and a refugee team are in Brazil to compete in 28 sports. They will be watched by a global audience of billions.<\/p>\n<p>The build-up has been dominated by a Russian doping scandal, the Zika virus and issues with the city&#8217;s security, infrastructure and venues.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14066 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90716921_mediaitem90716918.jpg\" alt=\"Jonas Junius was Namibia&#039;s flag-bearer during the opening ceremony on Friday\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A Namibian boxer has been arrested by Brazilian police on suspicion of attempting to sexually assault a maid in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic village.} She alleged Jonas Junius, 22, had grabbed her and tried to kiss her. She also accused him of offering her money to have sex. Junius is competing in the light-welterweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27562"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27562"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}