{"id":24455,"date":"2011-06-30T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24455"},"modified":"2011-06-30T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:55:39","slug":"france-journalists-freed-by-taliban-after-18-months-in-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24455","title":{"rendered":"France: Journalists freed by Taliban after 18 months in captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship: France\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\">French<\/a> journalists, Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, have returned home after <a title=\"New York Times: 2 journalists freed by Taliban\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/01\/world\/europe\/01hostages.html\" target=\"_blank\">18 months captivity<\/a> in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afghanistan<\/a>. The reporter and cameraman for television channel,<a title=\"France 3: Home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.france3.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\"> France 3<\/a>, were captured in 2009 while filming in the mountains of Kapisa. The pair were kept in solitary confinement for eight months and locked up for 23 hours a day. A media blackout was imposed on the French media throughout the first few months of their captivity out for &#8220;a political reasons and concerns for their safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French journalists, Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, have returned home after 18 months captivity in Afghanistan. The reporter and cameraman for television channel, France 3, were captured in 2009 while filming in the mountains of Kapisa. The pair were kept in solitary confinement for eight months and locked up for 23 hours a day. A [&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":[51,7375,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455"}],"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=24455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24458,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455\/revisions\/24458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}