{"id":26595,"date":"2011-09-09T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:01:00","slug":"egypt-authorities-freeze-new-satellite-tv-station-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26595","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Authorities freeze new satellite TV station licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military rulers in\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Egypt<\/a> have frozen licenses for<a title=\"Egypt freezes new satellite TV station licenses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hMXubaKp8RJm0E88FVR0xG32hdwQ?docId=4069a958944e4c9db4408663063e19f4\" target=\"_blank\"> new private satellite<\/a> TV stations, claiming they are inciting violence in an \u201cincreasingly chaotic media scene.\u201d Activists are claiming that these restrictions on freedom of expression are similar to those put in place under President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak\u2019s previous governments had imprisoned journalists for their coverage of his health and other sensitive issues. <a title=\"Egypt: Protesters move from euphoria to fury\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/02\/fury-as-mubarak-clings-to-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">During the protests<\/a> that led to Mubarak\u2019s downfall, authorities banned Al-Jazeera TV and revoked the press credentials of its journalists. Communication Minister Osama Heikal said the freeze was temporary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military rulers in\u00a0Egypt have frozen licenses for new private satellite TV stations, claiming they are inciting violence in an \u201cincreasingly chaotic media scene.\u201d Activists are claiming that these restrictions on freedom of expression are similar to those put in place under President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak\u2019s previous governments had imprisoned journalists for their coverage of his [&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":[449,7376,2841,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595"}],"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=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26599,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions\/26599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}