{"id":22309,"date":"2011-04-21T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22309"},"modified":"2011-04-21T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:18:22","slug":"vietnam-authorities-drop-charges-against-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22309","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: Authorities drop charges against blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship: Vietnam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Vietnam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnamese<\/a> authorities have dropped charges against a female blogger who was detained for :infringing on the interests of the state&#8221;. She was arrested for <a title=\"Thanhnien: Charges dropped against blogger  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanhniennews.com\/2010\/Pages\/20110419161552.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">defamation<\/a> after describing a senior official\u2019s son as a womanizer. Le Nguyen Huong Tra, who blogged under the pseudonym Co Gai Do Long<strong>,<\/strong> was arrested last October and released on bail this January. Authorities have <a title=\"RSF: Woman blogger will no longer be prosecuted\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/vietnam-popular-woman-blogger-arrested-27-10-2010,38682.html\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> her actions to be \u201cless serious\u201d than first thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnamese authorities have dropped charges against a female blogger who was detained for :infringing on the interests of the state&#8221;. She was arrested for defamation after describing a senior official\u2019s son as a womanizer. Le Nguyen Huong Tra, who blogged under the pseudonym Co Gai Do Long, was arrested last October and released on bail [&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":[241,3003,1911,7397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309"}],"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=22309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22385,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions\/22385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}