{"id":25261,"date":"2011-08-03T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T09:54:10","slug":"dominican-republic-tv-reporter-kidnapped-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25261","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic: TV reporter kidnapped, murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV reporter Jos\u00e9 Agust\u00edn Silvestre was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/Dominican%20TV%20Reporter%20Kidnapped%20and%20Murdered\">kidnapped, shot and killed<\/a>\u00a0on 2nd August in La Romana,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/dominican-republic\/\">Dominican Republic<\/a>.\u00a0Local papers have claimed his murder is connected to accusations he had made regarding corruption and local delinquency on his programme, The Voice of Truth. Silvestre had also served a prison sentence in May for defamation and slander after accusing a city prosecutor of having drug trafficking connections. The Inter American Press Association called 2011\u00a0&#8220;the most tragic year in the last two decades for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/latin-america\/\">Latin American<\/a> press&#8221; in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/2011%20the%20most%20tragic%20in%20the%20last%2020%20years%20for%20Latin%20American%20press%3A%20SIP\">report\u00a0<\/a>published last month.\u00a0Silvestre is the 20th reporter to have been killed in the region this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV reporter Jos\u00e9 Agust\u00edn Silvestre was\u00a0kidnapped, shot and killed\u00a0on 2nd August in La Romana,\u00a0Dominican Republic.\u00a0Local papers have claimed his murder is connected to accusations he had made regarding corruption and local delinquency on his programme, The Voice of Truth. Silvestre had also served a prison sentence in May for defamation and slander after accusing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[3594,3593,743,92,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25280,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions\/25280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}