{"id":26216,"date":"2011-08-31T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26216"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:00","slug":"nepal-newspaper-distributor-attacked-for-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26216","title":{"rendered":"Nepal: Newspaper distributor attacked for cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khagendra Basnet, distributor of a local daily called Nigarani, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/nepal\/2011\/08\/26\/nigarani_daily_threatened\/\">was threatened<\/a> on 22 August in eastern <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Nepal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/nepal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nepal<\/a>. According to reports, the individual harassed Basnet and threatened to burn down the daily&#8217;s facilities on the account of a cartoon published in the newspaper&#8217;s satirical section, Gaijatre. The section is named after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaijatra\">Gaijatre festival<\/a>, also known as the festival of cows, in which important and powerful members of society are mocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khagendra Basnet, distributor of a local daily called Nigarani, was threatened on 22 August in eastern Nepal. According to reports, the individual harassed Basnet and threatened to burn down the daily&#8217;s facilities on the account of a cartoon published in the newspaper&#8217;s satirical section, Gaijatre. The section is named after the Gaijatre festival, also known [&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":[3724,341,3723,727,3689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216"}],"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=26216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26224,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216\/revisions\/26224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}