{"id":9787,"date":"2021-01-18T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118222\/top-court-throws-out-request-hong-kong-prison-bosses"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:42:33","slug":"top-court-throws-out-request-by-hong-kong-prison-bosses-to-keep-discriminatory-haircut-requirement-for-male-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/top-court-throws-out-request-by-hong-kong-prison-bosses-to-keep-discriminatory-haircut-requirement-for-male-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Top court throws out request by Hong Kong prison bosses to keep discriminatory haircut requirement for male inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s top court has thrown out a request by the prison service to temporarily keep a discriminatory requirement for male inmates to keep their hair short until authorities come up with a substitute policy that complies with the law.\r\rThe Court of Final Appeal said in a judgment on Monday there was nothing complex about its ruling in November that would justify a six-month suspension of an order requiring \u201celimination of the less favourable treatment regarding hair length requirements\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118222\/top-court-throws-out-request-hong-kong-prison-bosses\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s top court has thrown out a request by the prison service to temporarily keep a discriminatory requirement for male inmates to keep their hair short until authorities come up with a substitute policy that complies with the law.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}