{"id":31694,"date":"2021-05-03T15:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/outpouring-of-grief-after-alleged-of-leading-tongan-lgbtqi-activist"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:07:37","slug":"outpouring-of-grief-after-alleged-murder-of-leading-tongan-lgbtqi-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31694","title":{"rendered":"Outpouring of grief after alleged murder of leading Tongan LGBTQI activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a man for the killing of Polikalepo Kefu, a lifelong advocate for the queer community across the Pacific<\/p>\n<p>Police in Tonga are investigating the death of one of the country\u2019s leading LGBTQI+ activists after his body was found on a beach near his home in Tongatapu, Tonga\u2019s main island.<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Polikalepo Kefu, 41. Kefu, who was affectionately known as \u201cPoli\u201d, was the president of Tonga Leitis Association, an organisation dedicated to the country\u2019s LGBTQ+ communities, providing support services, advocacy, and education on HIV-Aids.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/outpouring-of-grief-after-alleged-of-leading-tongan-lgbtqi-activist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a man for the killing of Polikalepo Kefu, a lifelong advocate for the queer community across the PacificPolice in Tonga are investigating the death of one of the country\u2019s leading LGBTQI+ activists after his body was found on a beac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2154,"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":[41,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-tonga","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\/31694","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\/2154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions\/31695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}