{"id":28142,"date":"2011-10-19T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28142"},"modified":"2011-12-05T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:43:34","slug":"sudan-parliament-witnesses-heated-discussions-over-press-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28142","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Parliament witnesses heated discussions over press censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Sudan Tribune - Sudan\u2019s parliament witnesses heated discussions over press censorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/Sudan-s-parliament-witnesses,40458\" target=\"_blank\">parliamentary seminar<\/a> to discuss proposed changes to <a title=\"Index on censorship - Sudan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Sudan\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan<\/a>&#8216;s press law was subject to a heated debate about pre-publication censorship on Monday. During the seminar, a leading member of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), Fathi Shilah, described press censorship as an act of backwardness regardless of the authority that implements it.\u00a0The current press law in the country,\u00a0<a title=\"CPJ - Repressive press law passed in Sudan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2009\/06\/repressive-press-law-passed-in-sudan.php\" target=\"_blank\">passed in 2009<\/a>, has been heavily criticised by journalists who claim the law only appears to create a free press. Newspapers are <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Sudan: More newspapers confiscated\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/09\/sudan-more-newspapers-confiscated\/\" target=\"_blank\">confiscated<\/a> and censored by security authorities aiming to prevent publication and large financial penalties can be handed to journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary seminar to discuss proposed changes to Sudan&#8216;s press law was subject to a heated debate about pre-publication censorship on Monday. During the seminar, a leading member of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), Fathi Shilah, described press censorship as an act of backwardness regardless of the authority that implements it.\u00a0The current press law [&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":[540,584,585],"tags":[3908,727,7347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142"}],"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=28142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30740,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142\/revisions\/30740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}