{"id":24583,"date":"2011-07-05T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24583"},"modified":"2011-07-05T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:57:44","slug":"syrian-journalist-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24583","title":{"rendered":"Syrian journalist Omar al-Asaad arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials <a title=\"Al Jazeera: Fears for Syrian journalist and activist\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.aljazeera.net\/middle-east\/2011\/07\/04\/fears-syrian-journalist-and-activist\" target=\"_blank\">arrested Omar al-Asaad<\/a>, a Syrian journalist and activist, on Sunday evening (3 July)\u00a0at a funeral for a fellow\u00a0protester killed in Damascus. Asaad wrote for a number of Arabic newspapers, including Al-Hayat and Aljazeera. Earlier in the year,\u00a0he exposed a famine affecting hundreds of thousands in north-east Syria, which the government had sought to minimise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials arrested Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, on Sunday evening (3 July)\u00a0at a funeral for a fellow\u00a0protester killed in Damascus. Asaad wrote for a number of Arabic newspapers, including Al-Hayat and Aljazeera. Earlier in the year,\u00a0he exposed a famine affecting hundreds of thousands in north-east Syria, which the government had sought to minimise.<\/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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3536,727,7391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24583"}],"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=24583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24636,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24583\/revisions\/24636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}