{"id":25534,"date":"2011-08-12T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2011-08-12T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T10:42:31","slug":"burma-video-reporter-faces-additional-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25534","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Video reporter faces additional charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"RSF - Jailed video journalist faces additional charge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/burma-jailed-video-reporter-faces-12-08-2011,40770.html\" target=\"_blank\">additional charge<\/a> has been brought against <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Sithu Zeya\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/sithu-zeya\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sithu Zeya<\/a>, a <a title=\"Democratic Voice of Burma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dvb.no\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Voice of Burma<\/a> video reporter who has been detained since April 2010 and is already serving an eight-year sentence for filming damage caused by a grenade explosion in Rangoon. The reporter, 21, could now receive an additional sentence of 7 to 15 years in prison on a charge of circulating material online \u201cthat can damage tranquillity and unity in the government\u201d under the Electronic Act. His mother has said that the confession her son gave to the police under torture that led to his first conviction will be used to sentence him for this new charge. <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Burma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/burma\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burma<\/a> is ranked 174th out of 178 countries in Reporters Without Borders&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/press-freedom-index-2010,1034.html\"> press freedom index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An additional charge has been brought against Sithu Zeya, a Democratic Voice of Burma video reporter who has been detained since April 2010 and is already serving an eight-year sentence for filming damage caused by a grenade explosion in Rangoon. The reporter, 21, could now receive an additional sentence of 7 to 15 years in [&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":[7353,3635,727,3636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534"}],"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=25534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25543,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions\/25543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}