{"id":49816,"date":"2022-10-31T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/richard-branson-refuses-singapore-invitation-to-debate-death-penalty"},"modified":"2022-10-31T20:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:26:01","slug":"richard-branson-refuses-singapore-invitation-to-debate-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49816","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson refuses Singapore invitation to debate death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK entrepreneur turns down live TV debate and says government should instead engage with local activists<\/p>\n<p>The British entrepreneur Richard Branson has rejected an invitation from Singapore\u2019s home affairs minister to debate the death penalty, urging him to instead engage with local activists who oppose the \u201cinhumane, brutal practice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Branson had been invited by the ministry of home affairs to debate capital punishment live on TV, after he described it as \u201ca serious stain on Singapore\u2019s reputation\u201d, and condemned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/27\/outcry-as-singapore-executes-man-with-learning-difficulties-over-drugs-offence\">execution earlier this year of Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/richard-branson-refuses-singapore-invitation-to-debate-death-penalty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK entrepreneur turns down live TV debate and says government should instead engage with local activistsThe British entrepreneur Richard Branson has rejected an invitation from Singapore\u2019s home affairs minister to debate the death penalty, urging him t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3399,"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":[41,6,1038,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-capital-punishment","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\/49816","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\/3399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49834,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49816\/revisions\/49834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}