Malaysia confiscates ‘LGBT’ rainbow Swatch watches
Officials seize 164 watches from Pride collection, with watchmaker promising to ‘replenish the stock and display them on-shelf’
Swiss watchmaker Swatch has said Malaysian authorities seized 164 rainbow-coloured watches worth a total of US$14,000 from its Pride collection.
LGBT people are discriminated against in Malaysia where homosexuality is forbidden and sodomy can be punished with imprisonment and corporal punishment, although enforcement is rare.
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