{"id":19733,"date":"2020-06-26T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/26\/afghan-government-backtracks-over-rule-forcing-media-to-reveal-sources"},"modified":"2020-06-26T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:45:47","slug":"afghan-government-backtracks-over-rule-forcing-media-to-reveal-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19733","title":{"rendered":"Afghan government backtracks over rule forcing media to reveal sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amendments to country\u2019s media law revoked after outcry from press<\/p>\n<p>An outcry by the Afghan press over amendments to the country\u2019s media law has seen the government call off initially approved changes.<\/p>\n<p>The newly revoked amendments included a rule that would force media to reveal sources to the government without a court order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/26\/afghan-government-backtracks-over-rule-forcing-media-to-reveal-sources\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendments to country\u2019s media law revoked after outcry from pressAn outcry by the Afghan press over amendments to the country\u2019s media law has seen the government call off initially approved changes.The newly revoked amendments included a rule that woul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"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":[46,59,238,671,672,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-media","category-newspapers","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\/19733","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\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions\/19734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}