{"id":24968,"date":"2011-07-15T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24968"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:53:38","slug":"uzbekistan-journalist-hospitalised-ends-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24968","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan: Journalist hospitalised, ends hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saodat Omonova, one of two women journalists protesting media censorship in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Uzbekistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/uzbekistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uzbekistan<\/a>, has ended her hunger strike after being\u00a0<a title=\"SperoForum: Uzbek journalist end hunger strike after hospitalization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speroforum.com\/site\/article.asp?id=56959&amp;t=Uzbek+Journalist+Ends+Hunger+Strike+After+Hospitalization]\" target=\"_blank\">hospitalised<\/a> earlier this week. It had been 16 days since Omonova and colleague, Malohat Eshonqulova, had begun their hunger strike after they were\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Journalists fined and detained for protesting media censorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/06\/uzbekistan-journalists-fined-and-detained-for-press-censorship-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested and fined<\/a> for protesting outside the presidential palace. The pair were\u00a0<a title=\"RSF: two journalists sacked and harassed for TV censorship protest\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/uzbekistan-two-journalists-sacked-and-23-12-2010,39150.html\" target=\"_blank\">were fired\u00a0<\/a>from state television channel Yoshlar last December, three days after they staged protests against media censorship. They are still fighting a court battle to appeal their initial dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saodat Omonova, one of two women journalists protesting media censorship in Uzbekistan, has ended her hunger strike after being\u00a0hospitalised earlier this week. It had been 16 days since Omonova and colleague, Malohat Eshonqulova, had begun their hunger strike after they were\u00a0arrested and fined for protesting outside the presidential palace. The pair were\u00a0were fired\u00a0from state television [&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":[584,585,581],"tags":[646,727,7390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968"}],"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=24968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24977,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions\/24977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}