{"id":52782,"date":"2023-02-20T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/bangladesh-shuts-down-main-opposition-newspaper-sheikh-hasina"},"modified":"2023-02-20T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T08:02:36","slug":"bangladesh-shuts-down-main-opposition-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52782","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh shuts down main opposition newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners fear media crackdown under PM Sheikh Hasina after  suspension order upheld<\/p>\n<p>The only newspaper of Bangladesh\u2019s main opposition party has stopped publishing after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the south Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners and foreign governments including the US have long expressed worries about efforts by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to silence criticism and what they see as creeping authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/bangladesh-shuts-down-main-opposition-newspaper-sheikh-hasina\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners fear media crackdown under PM Sheikh Hasina after  suspension order upheldThe only newspaper of Bangladesh\u2019s main opposition party has stopped publishing after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3591,"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":[327,238,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-media","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\/52782","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\/3591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52782\/revisions\/52783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}