{"id":16653,"date":"2020-03-30T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/singapore-court-rejects-challenge-to-gay-sex-ban"},"modified":"2020-03-30T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:06:11","slug":"singapore-court-rejects-challenge-to-gay-sex-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16653","title":{"rendered":"Singapore court rejects challenge to gay sex ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High court rejects three challenges to law inherited from British colonial era<\/p>\n<p>A fresh attempt to overturn a Singapore law banning gay sex has failed after a court dismissed several challenges, marking a setback for efforts to promote greater LGBT rights in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The law, inherited from the British colonial era, is rarely enforced but campaigners say it jars with the affluent city-state\u2019s increasingly modern and vibrant culture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/singapore-court-rejects-challenge-to-gay-sex-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High court rejects three challenges to law inherited from British colonial eraA fresh attempt to overturn a Singapore law banning gay sex has failed after a court dismissed several challenges, marking a setback for efforts to promote greater LGBT right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16654,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions\/16654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}