{"id":24216,"date":"2011-06-24T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24216"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:52:32","slug":"swaziland-journalist-detained-and-accused-of-tainting-countrys-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24216","title":{"rendered":"Swaziland: Journalist detained and accused of tainting country&#8217;s image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swazi journalist Mancoba Nxumalo was <a title=\"AFP: Swazi journalist arrested for 'tarnishing' kingdom's image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hZoeOODDT9sb9prUv67a_Kao5krA?docId=CNG.303a98314b212653789ee9d519e7b3fd.561\" target=\"_blank\">held by police on Wednesday<\/a> (22 June) and accused of &#8220;tarnishing&#8221; the Kingdom&#8217;s image, he has claimed. The journalist believes he was targeted for arranging interviews for South African broadcaster SABC with two Swazi activists jailed over pro-democracy protests in April. He said that police told him he had &#8220;conspired with the SABC to tarnish the county&#8217;s image&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swazi journalist Mancoba Nxumalo was held by police on Wednesday (22 June) and accused of &#8220;tarnishing&#8221; the Kingdom&#8217;s image, he has claimed. The journalist believes he was targeted for arranging interviews for South African broadcaster SABC with two Swazi activists jailed over pro-democracy protests in April. He said that police told him he had &#8220;conspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[3515,727,7420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24273,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions\/24273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}