{"id":27771,"date":"2011-10-12T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27771"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:00:00","slug":"release-burmese-comic-zar-ga-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27771","title":{"rendered":"Index welcomes release of Burmese comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Free Zarganar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freezarganar.org\/images\/Logo_001.gif\" alt=\"Free Zarganar Campaign Logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"97\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Index on Censorship welcomes welcomes the release of Burmese comic Zarganar along with thousands of other prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Htein Lin, close friend of Zarganar and member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freezarganar.org\/home.asp\">Free Zarganar Campaign<\/a> along with Index on Censorship and other supporters, said he was delighted at the news of the popular comedian\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great news, we really appreciate it and it is a very positive sign.\u00a0 Hopefully the new government will release more political prisoners very soon. \u00a0Zarganar came out with jokes making everybody laugh and very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zarganar was imprisoned for speaking out against the military junta in its handling of the Cyclone Nargis crisis in May 2008.\u00a0 \u00a0The 6000 prisoners who will be released today include some journalists and monks, but there are many political activists still detained.<\/p>\n<p>Zarganar is reported as saying &#8220;I am not happy because so many of my friends are still in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As part of our continued work with artists in Burmese diasapora, Index on Censorship co-hosted the first festival of Burmese Art, featuring a preview of \u2018The Prison Where I Live&#8221; a film about Zarganar.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JgmQXKE3hV4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JgmQXKE3hV4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Subscribe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2010\/12\/new-issue-beyond-bars\/bb_web_140_210-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18555\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18555 alignright\" title=\"Beyond Bars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BB_Web_140_2101.jpg\" alt=\"Beyond Bars\" width=\"98\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A profile of Zargana is featured in Beyond Bars, a 2010 issue of Index on Censorship magazine.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/subscribe\/\">Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands have been released from prison by the Burmese junta, including the popular comic Zarganar, but many political activists are still detained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[581],"tags":[7353,2206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84072,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/84072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}