{"id":25983,"date":"2011-08-24T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25983"},"modified":"2011-08-24T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:04:28","slug":"tajikistan-bbc-reporter-claims-he-was-tortured-while-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25983","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan: BBC reporter claims he was tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC World Service reporter who was arrested in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Tajikistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/tajikistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tajikistan<\/a> this summer has said <a title=\"RSF - BBC correspondent tells court he was tortured while detained\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/tadjikistan-bbc-correspondent-tells-court-he-23-08-2011,40553.html\" target=\"_blank\">he was\u00a0burned with lit cigarettes<\/a> and beaten while detained. Although the specific charges against journalist\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Urunboy Usmonov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/urunboy-usmonov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urunboy Usmanov<\/a>\u00a0remain unclear, he has been accused in the country\u2019s state media of being a member of Hizb ut-Tahr an Islamist organisation which is banned in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC World Service reporter who was arrested in Tajikistan this summer has said he was\u00a0burned with lit cigarettes and beaten while detained. Although the specific charges against journalist\u00a0Urunboy Usmanov\u00a0remain unclear, he has been accused in the country\u2019s state media of being a member of Hizb ut-Tahr an Islamist organisation which is banned in the [&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":[727,7419,3516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25983"}],"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=25983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26009,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25983\/revisions\/26009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}