{"id":888,"date":"2014-05-13T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=888"},"modified":"2014-05-13T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:09:34","slug":"beverly-hills-city-council-condemns-brunei-penal-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/888","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Hills City Council Condemns Brunei Penal Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beverly Hills City Council voted unanimously for a resolution urging the nation of Brunei to sell The Beverly Hills Hotel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=14976\u00a0\">because of the country\u2019s penal code<\/a> of &#8220;kill-a-gay&#8221; and &#8220;flog-a-woman.&#8221; The Brunei Investment Agency, managed by the Brunei Ministry of Finance controlled by Brunei\u2019s sultan, also owns the the Bel-Air Hotel and other Dorchester Collection Properties. The Feminist Majority withdrew its annual Global Women&#8217;s Rights Awards from the Beverly Hills Hotel and held a rally on Monday in the park across from the venue. FMF\u2019s petition drive and social media campaign uses the hashtag #StopTheSultan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beverly Hills City Council voted unanimously for a resolution urging the nation of Brunei to sell The Beverly Hills Hotel because of the country\u2019s penal code of &#8220;kill-a-gay&#8221; and &#8220;flog-a-woman.&#8221; The Brunei Investment Agency, managed by the Brunei Ministry of Finance controlled by Brunei\u2019s sultan, also owns the the Bel-Air Hotel and other Dorchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","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\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}