{"id":1985,"date":"2015-06-21T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T21:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2015-06-21T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T21:20:05","slug":"south-korea-rules-police-cant-ban-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1985","title":{"rendered":"South Korea rules police can&#8217;t ban Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A court in South Korea ruled this week that the police could not ban a Pride celebration by refusing to issue permits for a parade. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/korea-court-rules-police-cannot-ban-pride170615\">Via Gay Star News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court ruled this violated LGBTI activists&#8217; right to protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unless there is a clear risk of danger to the public, preventing the demonstration is not allowed and should be the absolute last resort,&#8217; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Myeong Jin Kang, chairman of the festival, welcomed the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The court&#8217;s decision in relation to police&#8217;s unjust notice prohibiting assembly is important,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Within a democratic country, built on civil society, the guarantee that society can use their voice has a deep meaning.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A court in South Korea ruled this week that the police could not ban a Pride celebration by refusing to issue permits for a parade. Via Gay Star News: The court ruled this violated LGBTI activists&#8217; right to protest. &#8216;Unless there is a clear risk of danger to the public, preventing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[163,94,162],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-court","tag-pride","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","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=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}