{"id":25340,"date":"2011-08-08T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25340"},"modified":"2011-08-08T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:54:20","slug":"angola-writer-arrested-for-reporting-mass-fainting-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25340","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Writer arrested for reporting mass fainting outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ad\u00e3o Tiago, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/angola\/\">Angolan<\/a> radio journalist for Radio Ecclesia, \u00a0has been arrested for reporting on\u00a0an outbreak of mass fainting. The faintings, involving\u00a0more than 500\u00a0school children\u00a0since April, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/News\/africa\/Angola+blames+fainting+wave+in+schools+on+hysteria\/-\/1066\/1213416\/-\/3schncz\/-\/\">have been linked, in some report,\u00a0to criminals<\/a> allegedly spraying institutions with gas. The Angolan government has\u00a0rejected this claim, blaming\u00a0hysteria triggered by &#8220;sensational news reporting&#8221; instead.\u00a0\u00a0According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/08\/angola-detains-journalist-over-report-on-mass-fain.php\">Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a>, Radio Ecclesia operates under &#8220;intense government pressure and self-censorship&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad\u00e3o Tiago, an Angolan radio journalist for Radio Ecclesia, \u00a0has been arrested for reporting on\u00a0an outbreak of mass fainting. The faintings, involving\u00a0more than 500\u00a0school children\u00a0since April, have been linked, in some report,\u00a0to criminals allegedly spraying institutions with gas. The Angolan government has\u00a0rejected this claim, blaming\u00a0hysteria triggered by &#8220;sensational news reporting&#8221; instead.\u00a0\u00a0According to the Committee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[3612,2238,727,3611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25370,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340\/revisions\/25370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}