{"id":74946,"date":"2025-10-29T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/bbc-journalist-barred-from-leaving-vietnam-and-repeatedly-interrogated"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:14:36","slug":"bbc-journalist-barred-from-leaving-vietnam-and-repeatedly-interrogated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74946","title":{"rendered":"BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and interrogated repeatedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 for journalist\u2019s wellbeing after Vietnamese police withhold their ID card and passport<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese authorities have barred a BBC journalist from leaving the country and \u200bsubjected them to days of interrogation, in a press freedom case that comes to light during a high-profile visit by Vietnam\u2019s leader to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist, a Vietnamese citizen who lives and works in Thailand, had returned to their home country in August to renew their passport, according a source with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/bbc-journalist-barred-from-leaving-vietnam-and-repeatedly-interrogated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 for journalist\u2019s wellbeing after Vietnamese police withhold their ID card and passportVietnamese authorities have barred a BBC journalist from leaving the country and \u200bsubjected them to days of interrogation, in a press freedom c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"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":[41,1762,238,672,54,52,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bbc","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-uk-news","category-vietnam","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\/74946","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\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74952,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions\/74952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}