{"id":26630,"date":"2011-09-12T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26630"},"modified":"2013-07-15T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T16:59:01","slug":"bangladesh-new-broadcast-law-enforcing-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26630","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: New broadcast law enforcing censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index: Bangladesh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a>&#8216;s government has passed <a href=\" http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2011\/sep\/12\/bangladesh-freedom-of-speech\">a new broadcast law<\/a> which will censor TV programmes and movies. The law, which will go into effect in three months&#8217; time, prevents the broadcasting of content depicting non-Muslim holidays, as well as &#8220;kiss scenes&#8221; in films on foreign channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh&#8216;s government has passed a new broadcast law which will censor TV programmes and movies. The law, which will go into effect in three months&#8217; time, prevents the broadcasting of content depicting non-Muslim holidays, as well as &#8220;kiss scenes&#8221; in films on foreign channels.<\/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":[7367,1308,103,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630"}],"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=26630"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49560,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions\/49560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}