{"id":26388,"date":"2011-09-07T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T11:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26388"},"modified":"2011-09-07T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T11:39:20","slug":"syria-journalist-arrested-held-without-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26388","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Journalist arrested, held without charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a title=\"Index on censorship - Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian<\/a>\u00a0journalist has been\u00a0<a title=\"CPJ - Syrian journalist arrested, held without charge\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2011\/09\/syrian-journalist-arrested-held-without-charge.php\" target=\"_blank\">arrested by security forces<\/a>\u00a0in Damascus. Amer Matar, from pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat was arrested on Saturday, though reasons for this are still unclear. Before his arrest, Matar emailed a friend a copy of his will, stating \u201cI may not come back from Friday prayers.\u201d Matar, who is also a political activist, called for peaceful anti-regime demonstrations via Facebook, much like journalist\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Omar Al-Assad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/omar-al-asaad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Omar al-Assad<\/a> who was\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship- Syrian journalist arrested\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/07\/syrian-journalist-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested in July<\/a>. The condition and whereabouts of both journalists remain unknown. Meanwhile, the Syrian government recently announced a new media law, proclaiming freedom of speech as a fundamental principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Syrian\u00a0journalist has been\u00a0arrested by security forces\u00a0in Damascus. Amer Matar, from pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat was arrested on Saturday, though reasons for this are still unclear. Before his arrest, Matar emailed a friend a copy of his will, stating \u201cI may not come back from Friday prayers.\u201d Matar, who is also a political activist, called for peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3753,3752,3511,727,7391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26388"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26420,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388\/revisions\/26420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}