{"id":22176,"date":"2011-04-11T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22176"},"modified":"2011-04-13T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:41:50","slug":"singapore-british-author-appeals-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22176","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: British author appeals jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British author Alan Shadrake, 76, has launched an appeal today (11 April) against a six-week jail sentence he received for scandalising <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Singapore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/singapore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore<\/a>\u2019s judiciary. Shadrake was <a title=\"Sydney Morning Herald: Writer plans to do time with Orwell and Huxley in Changi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/writer-plans-to-do-time-with-orwell-and-huxley-in-changi-20110410-1d99z.html\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> and fined last November after the Singapore High Court ruled that his book, Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, broke the city-state\u2019s laws. The Attorney-General\u2019s Chamber in Singapore had <a title=\"AFP: British author appeals Singapore jail term\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hTxbFu0aBQL3GMHNFNTVohv3GKpw?docId=CNG.5a3c02fa0e1aa7a78951b5706642974d.b91\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a> that the book damaged public perception of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British author Alan Shadrake, 76, has launched an appeal today (11 April) against a six-week jail sentence he received for scandalising Singapore\u2019s judiciary. Shadrake was sentenced and fined last November after the Singapore High Court ruled that his book, Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, broke the city-state\u2019s laws. The Attorney-General\u2019s [&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":[584,585],"tags":[2498,571,3357,7385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176"}],"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=22176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22195,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions\/22195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}