{"id":57443,"date":"2023-08-10T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/10\/owners-lgbt-swatch-watches-could-jailed-malaysia"},"modified":"2023-08-10T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:23:19","slug":"owners-of-lgbt-swatch-watches-could-be-jailed-for-three-years-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57443","title":{"rendered":"Owners of \u2018LGBT\u2019 Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sellers of timepieces with rainbow colours face same punishment as country says they could \u2018harm morals\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Owners or sellers of rainbow-coloured timepieces made by the Swiss watchmaker Swatch face three years in prison in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/malaysia\">Malaysia<\/a>, the interior ministry has said, as the Muslim-majority country rails against LGBTQ+ symbols it says could \u201charm morals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexuality is outlawed in Malaysia and LGBTQ+ people face discrimination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/10\/owners-lgbt-swatch-watches-could-jailed-malaysia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sellers of timepieces with rainbow colours face same punishment as country says they could \u2018harm morals\u2019Owners or sellers of rainbow-coloured timepieces made by the Swiss watchmaker Swatch face three years in prison in Malaysia, the interior ministry h&#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":[41,6,2729,70,335,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-lgbtq-rights","category-malaysia","category-retail-industry","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\/57443","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=57443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57444,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57443\/revisions\/57444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}