{"id":16705,"date":"2020-04-01T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/myanmar-editor-could-face-life-in-jail-for-interviewing-rebel"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:02:07","slug":"myanmar-blocks-hundreds-of-news-sites-and-threatens-editor-with-life-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16705","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar blocks hundreds of news sites and threatens editor with life in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears abuses may go unreported after journalist arrest under terrorism laws for interview with rebel group Arakan Army <\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has cracked down on journalists, blocking news websites and maintaining a longstanding internet ban in some areas, prompting warnings it is becoming increasingly hard to monitor abuses in the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Myanmar charged a journalist under a terrorism law for publishing an interview with the Arakan Army, a rebel group that demands greater autonomy for the state\u2019s ethnic Rakhine people. The group had recently been labelled a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/myanmar-editor-could-face-life-in-jail-for-interviewing-rebel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears abuses may go unreported after journalist arrest under terrorism laws for interview with rebel group Arakan Army Myanmar has cracked down on journalists, blocking news websites and maintaining a longstanding internet ban in some areas, prompting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[86,238,82,672,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-myanmar","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/16705","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions\/16706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}