{"id":73539,"date":"2025-08-20T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/malaysian-state-threatens-to-jail-muslim-men-who-skip-friday-prayers"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:50:34","slug":"malaysian-state-threatens-to-jail-muslim-men-who-skip-friday-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73539","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian state threatens to jail Muslim men who skip Friday prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new laws in Malaysia\u2019s Terengganu state, first-time offenders could be imprisoned for up to two years and fined<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian state of Terengganu has threatened to jail men who skip Friday prayers without a valid reason for up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>Under sharia law in the Malaysian province, first-time offenders could be imprisoned for up to two years, and fined 3,000 ringgit (\u00a3527), or both, according to new rules that came into effect this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/malaysian-state-threatens-to-jail-muslim-men-who-skip-friday-prayers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new laws in Malaysia\u2019s Terengganu state, first-time offenders could be imprisoned for up to two years and finedThe Malaysian state of Terengganu has threatened to jail men who skip Friday prayers without a valid reason for up to two years.Und&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4898,"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":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/73539","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\/4898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73548,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions\/73548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}