{"id":27698,"date":"2011-10-10T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27698"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:05:31","slug":"burma-censor-chief-calls-for-more-media-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27698","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Censor chief calls for more media freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the press censorship department in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Burma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Burma\" target=\"_blank\">Burma<\/a> has called for <a title=\"BBC - Burma censor chief calls for more media freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-15227175\" target=\"_blank\">greater media freedom<\/a> in the country. Tint Swe called for the abolition of censorship during a radio show with Radio Free Asia. Recent reforms under the <a title=\"BBC - Burma: Hopes and fears over new political system\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-12896815\" target=\"_blank\">new administration<\/a> are showing determination to reform in the country, where the media is said to be the most heavily censored in the world. Some <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Censors unblock several banned websites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/09\/burma-censors-unblock-several-banned-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously blocked<\/a> websites are now available and newspapers have been allowed to publish photographs and reports about the pro-democracy leader <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Aung San Suu Kyi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/aung-san-suu-kyi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>, which is previously unheard of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the press censorship department in Burma has called for greater media freedom in the country. Tint Swe called for the abolition of censorship during a radio show with Radio Free Asia. Recent reforms under the new administration are showing determination to reform in the country, where the media is said to be [&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":[584,585],"tags":[7353,103,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27698"}],"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=27698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27700,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27698\/revisions\/27700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}