{"id":27978,"date":"2011-10-17T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27978"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:06:35","slug":"tunisia-crowds-gather-for-anti-censorship-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27978","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Crowds gather for anti-censorship march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"LA Times - Tunis crowds gather for anti-censorship march\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/world_now\/2011\/10\/tunisia-freedom-of-expression-demonstration-elections-islamists-freedom-of-speech-nessma-tv-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of demonstrators<\/a> took part in an anti-censorship march in the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Tunisia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Tunisia\" target=\"_blank\">Tunisian<\/a> capital on Sunday. As the debate between Islamic conservatives and secularists continues in the country, the liberal demonstrators gathered for the march, dubbed\u00a0&#8220;Aataqni&#8221; or &#8220;set me free&#8221; in Tunisian Arabic. The movement follows <a title=\"Index on Censorship - TUNISIA: BROADCAST OF \u2018PERSEPOLIS\u2019 PROMPTS PROTEST\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/10\/tunisia-broadcast-of-persepolis-prompts-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">opposing protests<\/a> last week, after the decision by Nessma TV to air the film Persepolis. The demonstrators at the Aataqni protest were alarmed by the reaction of the Islamists \u00a0to the animated film, claiming if that kind of censorship was accepted, it could lead to censorship of other programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of demonstrators took part in an anti-censorship march in the Tunisian capital on Sunday. As the debate between Islamic conservatives and secularists continues in the country, the liberal demonstrators gathered for the march, dubbed\u00a0&#8220;Aataqni&#8221; or &#8220;set me free&#8221; in Tunisian Arabic. The movement follows opposing protests last week, after the decision by Nessma TV [&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":[103,283,7352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978"}],"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=27978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27990,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978\/revisions\/27990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}