{"id":40298,"date":"2013-10-07T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=40298"},"modified":"2013-10-07T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:06:14","slug":"gulf-states-to-introduce-medical-testing-on-travellers-to-detect-gay-people-and-stop-them-from-entering-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=40298","title":{"rendered":"Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to &#8216;detect&#8217; gay people and stop them from entering the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kuwait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40295\" alt=\"Kuwait\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kuwait.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kuwait.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kuwait-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kuwait-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to &#8216;detect&#8217; homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country \u2013 or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official.<\/p>\n<p>GCC member countries \u2013 Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates \u2013 already deem homosexual acts unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>This controversial stance is being toughened, with members of the LGBT community stopped at the border and banned from entering the country, according to Yousouf Mindkar, the director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Those taking part in homosexual acts in Kuwait, if they\u2019re under 21, can receive a jail sentence of up to 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to &#8216;detect&#8217; homosexuals and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-40298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-kuwait","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}