{"id":53928,"date":"2023-03-30T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/bangladesh-journalist-charged-over-story-about-rising-food-prices"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T00:18:00","slug":"bangladesh-journalist-charged-over-story-about-rising-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53928","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh journalist charged over story about rising food prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsuzzaman Shams was taken from his home at 4am and accused of spreading \u2018false news\u2019 over article about cost of living crisis<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh police on Wednesday charged a reporter from a leading newspaper with producing \u201cfalse news\u201d, stoking fears about media freedom, after an article about high food prices went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Shamsuzzaman Shams was picked up from his home in the industrial town of Savar just outside Dhaka at about 4am by plainclothes police, according to his newspaper, Prothom Alo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/bangladesh-journalist-charged-over-story-about-rising-food-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsuzzaman Shams was taken from his home at 4am and accused of spreading \u2018false news\u2019 over article about cost of living crisisBangladesh police on Wednesday charged a reporter from a leading newspaper with producing \u201cfalse news\u201d, stoking fears about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[327,54,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928\/revisions\/53929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}