{"id":6754,"date":"2021-02-27T20:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2021-02-27T20:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T10:08:06","slug":"queensland-sex-workers-forced-underground-by-draconian-laws-amid-predatory-police-targeting-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/queensland-sex-workers-forced-underground-by-draconian-laws-amid-predatory-police-targeting-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland sex workers forced underground by &#8216;draconian&#8217; laws amid &#8216;predatory&#8217; police targeting, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;They were going through all my stuff, asking for passwords to my devices, looking for something \u2026 literally anything to charge me with,&#8221; she said. After a day of court proceedings, Isabel emerged with all charges against her dropped \u2014 a victory she described as &#8220;an absolute f**k you to the cops. [&#8230;] Every single thing [in their case] seemed to be &#8216;we rely on intimidation tactics for people to feel guilty and we&#8217;re going to drag it out and hope that people feel vulnerable&#8217;. And it&#8217;s hard not to feel that,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-02-27\/queensland-police-entrapment-sex-workers-prostitution-laws\/13188118\">ABC article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They were going through all my stuff, asking for passwords to my devices, looking for something \u2026 literally anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,443,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}