{"id":25374,"date":"2011-08-10T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25374"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:17:24","slug":"bangladesh-editor-arrested-for-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25374","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Editor arrested for extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Ekramul Haque, editor and owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheershanews.com\">Sheershanews.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheershakagoj.com\">Sheersha Kagoj<\/a>, was arrested on 31 July by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/bangladesh\/\">Bangladeshi<\/a> authorities on a charge of extortion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemedia.at\/singleview\/5691\/\">According to police reports<\/a>, Haque\u00a0allegedly threatened\u00a0to\u00a0negatively cover a\u00a0travel agency unless he received 200,000 TK (\u00a31630). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhakamirror.com\/?p=33561\">In a press release<\/a>, Sheershanews.com defended the editor, claiming that he was actually arrested for publishing reports on government corruption. The press release also denies the existence of the travel agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Ekramul Haque, editor and owner of Sheershanews.com and Sheersha Kagoj, was arrested on 31 July by Bangladeshi authorities on a charge of extortion. According to police reports, Haque\u00a0allegedly threatened\u00a0to\u00a0negatively cover a\u00a0travel agency unless he received 200,000 TK (\u00a31630). In a press release, Sheershanews.com defended the editor, claiming that he was actually arrested for publishing [&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":[7367,346,3614,3616,3615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374"}],"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=25374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25455,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions\/25455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}