{"id":30502,"date":"2021-04-02T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/02\/new-laws-fuelling-increasing-hostility-and-anti-lgbtq-violence-in-uzbekistan"},"modified":"2021-04-02T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:45:48","slug":"new-laws-fuelling-increasing-hostility-and-anti-lgbtq-violence-in-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30502","title":{"rendered":"Anti-LGBTQ laws in Uzbekistan fuel hostility and violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say widespread homophobia in the conservative Islamic country is being inflamed by calls to decriminalise same-sex unions<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan\u2019s LGBTQ+ community says it is facing increasing threats and repression after anti-LGBTQ+ protests turned violent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codastory.com\/disinformation\/uzbekistan-lgbtq-rights\/\">new laws were passed<\/a> this week banning the publication of content deemed to show disrespect for society and the state.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups say that the legislation, passed on Tuesday, will prevent media or online commentators arguing for the decriminalisation of sexual conduct between men, which is illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison. Uzbekistan \u2013 along with Turkmenistan \u2013 are the only post-Soviet states that prohibit sexual relations between men.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/02\/new-laws-fuelling-increasing-hostility-and-anti-lgbtq-violence-in-uzbekistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say widespread homophobia in the conservative Islamic country is being inflamed by calls to decriminalise same-sex unionsUzbekistan\u2019s LGBTQ+ community says it is facing increasing threats and repression after anti-LGBTQ+ protests turned vio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2061,"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":[59,53,72,61,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-lgbt-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uzbekistan","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\/30502","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\/2061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30516,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30502\/revisions\/30516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}