{"id":10967,"date":"2019-11-11T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/11\/vanuatu-has-cancelled-my-work-permit-its-a-dark-day-for-media-freedom"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:54:14","slug":"vanuatu-has-cancelled-my-work-permit-its-a-dark-day-for-media-freedom-dan-mcgarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10967","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu has cancelled my work permit; it&#8217;s a dark day for media freedom | Dan McGarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanuatu\u2019s Daily Post has always held the government to account and will continue to do so, with or without me as editor<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Vanuatu government issued instructions that after 16 years living here and, despite having a Ni Vanuatu spouse and children, I will have to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>As the media director and publisher of Vanuatu\u2019s only daily newspaper, a newspaper that has repeatedly held the government uncomfortably to account, I believe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/08\/attack-on-the-media-vanuatu-newspaper-boss-has-work-visa-refused\">government refused my application<\/a> to renew my work visa to silence me and warn other journalists in the country not to speak out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/11\/vanuatu-has-cancelled-my-work-permit-its-a-dark-day-for-media-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanuatu\u2019s Daily Post has always held the government to account and will continue to do so, with or without me as editorOn Thursday, the Vanuatu government issued instructions that after 16 years living here and, despite having a Ni Vanuatu spouse and c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions\/10968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}