{"id":25566,"date":"2011-08-15T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T09:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25566"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:36","slug":"cambodia-two-critical-newspapers-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25566","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia: Two critical newspapers shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two newspapers critical of the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Cambodia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/cambodia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cambodian<\/a> ruling party were <a title=\"IFEX: Journalists and activists agitating for rights targeted \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/cambodia\/2011\/08\/10\/artivists_targeted\/\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a> permanently, while five men were convicted of &#8220;provocation&#8221; for distributing pamphlets critical of the state last week, according to the <a title=\"Cambodian Center for Human Rights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrcambodia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR)<\/a>. The pamphlets discussed the Cambodian government&#8217;s ties to the Vietnamese government, accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of selling land to foreign countries and referring to him as a &#8220;traitor&#8221; and a &#8220;puppet of Vietnam.&#8221; Newspapers The Water and Fire News and The World News were ordered to stop publishing as of 3 August and had their licenses revoked due to perceived insult to the Ministry of Information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two newspapers critical of the Cambodian ruling party were shut down permanently, while five men were convicted of &#8220;provocation&#8221; for distributing pamphlets critical of the state last week, according to the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR). The pamphlets discussed the Cambodian government&#8217;s ties to the Vietnamese government, accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of selling [&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":[1812,103,1787,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566"}],"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=25566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84695,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25566\/revisions\/84695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}