{"id":22471,"date":"2011-04-28T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22471"},"modified":"2011-04-28T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:51:55","slug":"al-jazeera-suspends-syrian-bureau-in-response-to-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22471","title":{"rendered":"Al-Jazeera suspends Syrian bureau in response to attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Jazeera <a title=\"Reuters: Al Jazeera suspends Arabic service operations in Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/28\/us-syria-jazeera-idUSTRE73R1YN20110428\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a> its Arabic services in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Syria\" href=\"Crackdown on journalists in Cairo\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a> yesterday (27 April) in response to attacks on its staff and government restrictions. The authorities have pressured Syrian nationals into resigning from the organisation and have prevented journalists from entering and reporting in Daraa, the city where the Syrian uprising began on March 15. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, unknown <a title=\"CPJ: Al-Jazeera suspends Syria bureau; attacks on Lebanon crew\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/04\/al-jazeera-suspends-syria-bureau-attacks-on-lebano.php\" target=\"_blank\">assailants<\/a> have attacked the Al-Jazeera offices with eggs and stones for the past three days. The events <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Crackdown on journalists in Cairo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/01\/crackdown-on-journalists-in-cairo\/\" target=\"_blank\">mirror those in Egypt<\/a>, where Al-Jazeera journalists were also subject to abuse and intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Jazeera suspended its Arabic services in Syria yesterday (27 April) in response to attacks on its staff and government restrictions. The authorities have pressured Syrian nationals into resigning from the organisation and have prevented journalists from entering and reporting in Daraa, the city where the Syrian uprising began on March 15. According to the Committee [&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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[449,7376,2752,3393,727,7391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471"}],"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=22471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22484,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions\/22484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}