{"id":6429,"date":"2019-08-08T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T09:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/kashmir-communications-blackout-is-draconian-says-un-envoy"},"modified":"2019-08-09T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:01:11","slug":"kashmir-indias-draconian-blackout-sets-worrying-precedent-warns-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6429","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir: India\u2019s \u2018draconian\u2019 blackout sets worrying precedent, warns UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>special rapporteur speaks as Modi calls revoking special status start of \u2018new era\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented communications blackout imposed on Indian-administered Kashmir could signal a departure in the way in which democratic states clamp down on information in contentious areas, the UN\u2019s special rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, has said.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, made his first public statement on Thursday since the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/07\/pakistan-cuts-india-trade-amid-kashmir-ethnic-cleansing-fear\">remove Kashmir\u2019s special status<\/a>, describing it as the start of a \u201cnew era\u201d that will help end decades of terrorism and separatism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/kashmir-communications-blackout-is-draconian-says-un-envoy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: special rapporteur speaks as Modi calls revoking special status start of \u2018new era\u2019 The unprecedented communications blackout imposed on Indian-administered Kashmir could signal a departure in the way in which democratic states clamp down on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"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":[62,432,433,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","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\/6429","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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}