{"id":23576,"date":"2020-10-08T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T01:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/08\/vietnam-arrests-prominent-journalist-as-state-cracks-down-on-free-speech-online"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T01:43:16","slug":"vietnam-arrests-prominent-journalist-as-state-cracks-down-on-free-speech-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23576","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam arrests prominent journalist as state cracks down on free speech online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pham Doan Trang was charged with opposing the state just after the country held talks with the US on human rights<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese authorities have arrested Pham Doan Trang \u2013 one of the nation\u2019s most prominent independent journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Trang was detained on Tuesday evening in Ho Chi Minh City, the same day Vietnam and the US held the 24th annual US-Vietnam human rights dialogue, which included talks on issues such as the right to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/08\/vietnam-arrests-prominent-journalist-as-state-cracks-down-on-free-speech-online\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pham Doan Trang was charged with opposing the state just after the country held talks with the US on human rightsVietnamese authorities have arrested Pham Doan Trang \u2013 one of the nation\u2019s most prominent independent journalists.Trang was detained on Tue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1357,"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":[41,457,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-freedom-of-speech","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576","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\/1357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576\/revisions\/23577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}