{"id":55423,"date":"2023-05-24T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/malaysia-confiscates-lgbt-rainbow-swatch-watches"},"modified":"2023-05-24T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:15:38","slug":"malaysia-confiscates-lgbt-rainbow-swatch-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55423","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia confiscates \u2018LGBT\u2019 rainbow Swatch watches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials seize 164 watches from Pride collection, with watchmaker promising to \u2018replenish the stock and display them on-shelf\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Swiss watchmaker Swatch has said Malaysian authorities seized 164 rainbow-coloured watches worth a total of US$14,000 from its Pride collection.<\/p>\n<p>LGBT people are discriminated against in Malaysia where homosexuality is forbidden and sodomy can be punished with imprisonment and corporal punishment, although enforcement is rare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/malaysia-confiscates-lgbt-rainbow-swatch-watches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials seize 164 watches from Pride collection, with watchmaker promising to \u2018replenish the stock and display them on-shelf\u2019Swiss watchmaker Swatch has said Malaysian authorities seized 164 rainbow-coloured watches worth a total of US$14,000 from it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3761,"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":[41,2729,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbtq-rights","category-malaysia","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\/55423","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\/3761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55424,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55423\/revisions\/55424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}