{"id":28935,"date":"2021-02-26T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/this-is-historic-malaysian-man-wins-appeal-against-islamic-gay-sex-charge"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:43:15","slug":"this-is-historic-malaysian-man-wins-appeal-against-islamic-gay-sex-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28935","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is historic&#8217;: Malaysian man wins appeal against Islamic gay sex charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unanimous decision by highest court hailed a step towards acceptance of LGBT+ people<\/p>\n<p>A Malaysian man has won a landmark court challenge against an Islamic ban on sex \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d, raising hopes for greater acceptance of gay rights in the mostly Muslim country.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision, Malaysia\u2019s top court ruled on Thursday that the Islamic provision used against the man was unconstitutional and authorities had no power to enact the law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/this-is-historic-malaysian-man-wins-appeal-against-islamic-gay-sex-charge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unanimous decision by highest court hailed a step towards acceptance of LGBT+ peopleA Malaysian man has won a landmark court challenge against an Islamic ban on sex \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d, raising hopes for greater acceptance of gay rights in th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,447,72,70,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-islam","category-lgbt-rights","category-malaysia","category-religion"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28937,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935\/revisions\/28937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}