{"id":145390,"date":"2019-04-11T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=145390"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:55:16","slug":"larus-discusses-bruneis-new-anti-lgbt-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/04\/11\/larus-discusses-bruneis-new-anti-lgbt-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Larus Discusses Brunei&#8217;s New Anti-LGBT Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_140995\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Larus-PSIA-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140995\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140995\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Larus-PSIA-2018-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Political Science Professor Elizabeth Larus\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Larus-PSIA-2018-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Larus-PSIA-2018.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political Science Professor Elizabeth Larus<\/p><\/div><p>Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, was quoted in an article entitled &ldquo;Is Brunei instating harsh anti-LGBT laws to appease Saudi Arabia for economic favors?&rdquo; Brunei is the first East and Southeast Asian country to introduce sharia penal code, drawing widespread condemnation from the international community. &ldquo;Early measures included the 2015 ban on the celebration of Christmas and jail terms for homosexuality. The most recent measures announced Wednesday put some teeth into Brunei&rsquo;s penal code,&rdquo; Larus said. <a href=\"https:\/\/meaww.com\/brunei-instating-harshest-sharia-law-anti-lgbt-attempt-appease-saudi-arabia-economic-favors-china-trade\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, was quoted in an article entitled &ldquo;Is Brunei instating harsh anti-LGBT laws to appease Saudi Arabia for economic favors?&rdquo; Brunei is the first East and Southeast Asian country to introduce sharia penal code, drawing widespread condemnation from the international community. &ldquo;Early measures included the 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28591,"featured_media":140995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9040,40],"class_list":["post-145390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-political-science-and-international-affairs","tag-elarus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}