{"id":1456,"date":"2014-11-21T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2014-11-21T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:54:58","slug":"gambia-strengthens-anti-gay-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1456","title":{"rendered":"Gambia strengthens anti-gay law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gambia, already not the friendliest country for gay men, just got worse. The country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/11\/21\/gambian-president-signs-bill-to-punish-gays-with-life-imprisonment\/\">has changed its criminal code<\/a> to make the punishment for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; worse. Instead of 14 years in prison for being caught having gay sex, the punishment is now life in prison. President Yahya Jammeh signed the bill this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Gambia, already not the friendliest country for gay men, just got worse. The country has changed its criminal code to make the punishment for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; worse. Instead of 14 years in prison for being caught having gay sex, the punishment is now life in prison. President Yahya Jammeh signed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}