{"id":21199,"date":"2020-07-31T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/31\/india-arrests-50-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:00:05","slug":"india-arrests-dozens-of-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21199","title":{"rendered":"India arrests dozens of journalists in clampdown on critics of Covid-19 response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters for independent outlets, many in rural areas, say pressure won\u2019t deter them from covering embarrassing stories<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facing a continuing upward trajectory in Covid-19 cases, the Indian government is clamping down on media coverage critical of its handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 Indian journalists have been arrested or had police complaints registered against them, or been physically assaulted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/31\/india-arrests-50-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters for independent outlets, many in rural areas, say pressure won\u2019t deter them from covering embarrassing storiesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFacing a continuing upward trajectory in Covid-19 cases, the Indian gove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1483,"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":[457,59,62,238,433,671,672,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-global-development","category-india","category-media","category-narendra-modi","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\/21199","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\/1483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21199\/revisions\/21200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}