{"id":23965,"date":"2011-06-21T12:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23965"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:32:20","slug":"jordan-news-agency-attacked-for-reports-of-violence-against-king-abdallah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23965","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: News agency stormed after reporting on attack on King Abdallah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the Agence France-Presse bureau in<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Jordan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Amman<\/a> was\u00a0attacked. The office was reportedly stormed by a dozen men armed with clubs who smashed furniture and telephones and threw files to the ground. Two days before the attack, editor in chief Randa Habib was threatened by an anonymous caller after the <a title=\"AFP: Jordan kings' motorcade &quot;attacked in southern city&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110613\/wl_mideast_afp\/jordanpoliticsunrest_20110613153059\" target=\"_blank\">agency reported <\/a>that stones and bottles had been thrown at\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship: King Abdullah\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/king-abdullah\/\" target=\"_blank\">King Abdallah\u2019s <\/a>motorcade during a visit to a settlement 200km north of the capital. Jordan&#8217;s Minister of State for Communications and Media Affairs, Taher Adwan, said that reports of violence by some media agencies were <a title=\"LA Times: Press freedom group condemns club-wielding mob's raid  \" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/2011\/06\/jordan-gunment-king-office-afp-news-agency-storm-free-press.html\" target=\"_blank\">groundless<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the Agence France-Presse bureau in Amman was\u00a0attacked. The office was reportedly stormed by a dozen men armed with clubs who smashed furniture and telephones and threw files to the ground. Two days before the attack, editor in chief Randa Habib was threatened by an anonymous caller after the agency reported that stones and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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":[3219,127,3464,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965"}],"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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84684,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions\/84684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}