{"id":31859,"date":"2021-05-08T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/08\/were-seen-as-dogs-death-of-tongan-lgbtq-activist-sparks-calls-for-reform"},"modified":"2021-05-08T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T05:28:48","slug":"were-seen-as-dogs-death-of-tongan-lgbtq-activist-sparks-calls-for-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31859","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They need to care about our humanity\u2019: death of Tongan LGBTQ+ activist sparks calls for reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the alleged murder of Polikalepo Kefu, Pacific LGBTQI groups are calling for change, including revoking sodomy laws<\/p>\n<p>The large hall of the basilica in the Tongan capital Nuku\u2019alofa, hasn\u2019t seen many crowds since Covid restrictions were introduced a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday night, people from across all parts of society packed every inch of available space in the venue, clad mostly in black and the traditional woven ta\u2019ovala dress.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/08\/were-seen-as-dogs-death-of-tongan-lgbtq-activist-sparks-calls-for-reform\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the alleged murder of Polikalepo Kefu, Pacific LGBTQI groups are calling for change, including revoking sodomy lawsThe large hall of the basilica in the Tongan capital Nuku\u2019alofa, hasn\u2019t seen many crowds since Covid restrictions were introduced a&#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-31859","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\/31859","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=31859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31859\/revisions\/31880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}