{"id":54763,"date":"2023-05-01T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/01\/bangladesh-journalists-living-in-fear-after-pms-enemy-of-the-people-remark"},"modified":"2023-05-01T21:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T12:52:37","slug":"bangladesh-journalists-living-in-fear-after-pms-enemy-of-the-people-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54763","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh media in fear after PM\u2019s \u2018people\u2019s enemy\u2019 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security Act<\/p>\n<p>Four weeks ago, a reporter in Bangladesh <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2023\/04\/bangladeshi-journalist-ayub-meahzi-attacked-thrown-off-building\/\">was hauled<\/a> from his office, badly beaten \u2013 and then thrown from the roof of his building, leaving him with fractures in his back, three broken ribs and a machete wound on his head.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist, Ayub Meahzi, believes he was targeted for reporting on alleged local government ties to a criminal group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/01\/bangladesh-journalists-living-in-fear-after-pms-enemy-of-the-people-remark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security ActFour weeks ago, a reporter in Bangladesh was hauled from his office, badly beaten \u2013 and then thrown from the roof of his building, leaving him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"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":[327,458,59,238,671,672,54,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-censorship","category-global-development","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-sheikh-hasina","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\/54763","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\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54763\/revisions\/54780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}