{"id":12929,"date":"2010-06-09T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:21:01","slug":"gambia-newspaper-website-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=12929","title":{"rendered":"Gambia: Newspaper website blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editors of the US-based newspaper <a title=\"Gambia Echo website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegambiaecho.com\/\">Gambia Echo<\/a> have seen access to their website from within Gambia <a title=\"Media Foundation for West Africa: Authorities block another online newspaper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafound.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=520&amp;Itemid=1\">blocked by the country&#8217;s government<\/a>. In a letter sent to the US State Department on June 4, the imprint&#8217;s editor-in-chief claims the move is part of a trend under President Yahya Jammeh towards restricting press freedom. Gambia Echo&#8217;s website, and that of Freedom Newspaper, another independent imprint, were previously blocked in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors of the US-based newspaper Gambia Echo have seen access to their website from within Gambia blocked by the country&#8217;s government. In a letter sent to the US State Department on June 4, the imprint&#8217;s editor-in-chief claims the move is part of a trend under President Yahya Jammeh towards restricting press freedom. Gambia Echo&#8217;s website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[7402,7384,211,727,3983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30474,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions\/30474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}