{"id":59453,"date":"2023-10-27T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/27\/new-zealand-gangs-may-be-forced-to-cover-facial-tattoos-with-makeup-incoming-government-says"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:48:07","slug":"new-zealand-gangs-may-be-forced-to-cover-facial-tattoos-with-makeup-incoming-government-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59453","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand gangs may be forced to cover facial tattoos with makeup, incoming government says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on offensive facial markings could come as part of wider crackdown on gangs, National party says<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s gangs may have to cover up offensive tattoos with makeup if the incoming government\u2019s crackdown on gang activity goes ahead.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the National party\u2019s police spokesperson, Mark Mitchell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/checkpoint\/audio\/2018912603\/what-will-national-s-crackdown-on-gangs-look-like\">told the national broadcaster RNZ<\/a> that if its proposed ban on gang patches \u2013 large insignia sewn on to jackets, for example \u2013 does not work, then it would consider making gang members apply foundation over their facial tattoos, or face arrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/27\/new-zealand-gangs-may-be-forced-to-cover-facial-tattoos-with-makeup-incoming-government-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on offensive facial markings could come as part of wider crackdown on gangs, National party saysNew Zealand\u2019s gangs may have to cover up offensive tattoos with makeup if the incoming government\u2019s crackdown on gang activity goes ahead.On Thursday, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4019,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/59453","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\/4019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453\/revisions\/59454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}