{"id":31356,"date":"2021-04-24T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T06:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/24\/malaysia-artist-detained-for-allegedly-insulting-queen-with-spotify-playlist"},"modified":"2021-04-24T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T06:02:47","slug":"malaysia-artist-detained-for-allegedly-insulting-queen-with-spotify-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31356","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: artist detained for allegedly insulting queen with Spotify playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest of Fahmi Reza comes amid concerns of a crackdown on dissent under prime ministership of Muhyiddin Yassin<\/p>\n<p>A Malaysian artist has been detained by police for allegedly insulting the country\u2019s queen by making a Spotify playlist that mocked comments on her Instagram account, an arrest condemned by rights groups as a clampdown on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement the graphic artist, Fahmi Reza, had uploaded a playlist with songs containing the word \u201cjealousy\u201d, with a photo of Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/24\/malaysia-artist-detained-for-allegedly-insulting-queen-with-spotify-playlist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest of Fahmi Reza comes amid concerns of a crackdown on dissent under prime ministership of Muhyiddin YassinA Malaysian artist has been detained by police for allegedly insulting the country\u2019s queen by making a Spotify playlist that mocked comments &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","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\/31356","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31357,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions\/31357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}