{"id":15911,"date":"2020-06-30T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15911"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:06:06","slug":"gabons-senate-votes-to-legalize-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/30\/gabons-senate-votes-to-legalize-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon&#8217;s Senate Votes To Legalize Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabon&#8217;s senate has strongly voted in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, a week after the lower house in the national assembly voted for a similar change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the move is ratified by the president, Gabon will become one of only a few African countries to legally allow homosexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of prominent politicians, as well as Christian and Muslim leaders, have reacted angrily, describing it as a change designed to appease foreign donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the central African nation criminalised homosexuality and made gay sex punishable with six months in prison and a large fine. Activists said that the move had sent the LGBT community further underground and had led to harassment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many African countries impose jail sentences on homosexuals, who are in some cases threatened with the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon&#8217;s senate has strongly voted in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, a week after the lower house in the national assembly voted for a similar change. If the move is ratified by the president, Gabon will become one of only a few African countries to legally allow homosexuality. A number of prominent politicians, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-15911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15913,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911\/revisions\/15913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}