{"id":22178,"date":"2011-04-13T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22178"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:32:48","slug":"sudan-newspapers-halt-publication-in-protest-at-state-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22178","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Newspapers halt publication in protest at state censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two independent <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sudan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudanese<\/a> newspapers, al-Maidan and Ajras al-Hurriya, are <a title=\"Sudan Tribune: Two Sudanese newspapers halt publication over censorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/Two-Sudanese-newspapers-halt,38528\" target=\"_blank\">halting<\/a> publication in protest at government censorship. Whilst Ajras has had its distribution blocked since Wednesday, al-Maidan has been barred from circulation three times already this month. The government has <a title=\"Al-Arabiya News: Sudan dailies halt publication over censorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2011\/04\/09\/144848.html\" target=\"_blank\">stepped up<\/a> censorship in the wake of anti-government protests which started in January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two independent Sudanese newspapers, al-Maidan and Ajras al-Hurriya, are halting publication in protest at government censorship. Whilst Ajras has had its distribution blocked since Wednesday, al-Maidan has been barred from circulation three times already this month. The government has stepped up censorship in the wake of anti-government protests which started in January of this year. [&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":[3359,3358,1030,3360,7347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178"}],"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=22178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22243,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions\/22243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}