{"id":29763,"date":"2011-11-25T13:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=29763"},"modified":"2011-12-05T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:11:21","slug":"maldives-government-shuts-down-blog-in-climate-of-growing-religious-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=29763","title":{"rendered":"Maldives: Government shuts down blog in climate of growing religious intolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Maldives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Maldives\" target=\"_blank\">Maldivan<\/a> government has\u00a0<a title=\"RSF: THE GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN BLOG IN CLIMATE OF GROWING RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/maldives-the-government-shuts-down-blog-in-23-11-2011,41437.html\" target=\"_blank\">ordered a ban on<\/a> the blog of a freelance writer on the grounds it\u00a0contained anti-Islamic material. The blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilath.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hilath.com<\/a>), run by independent journalist Ismail Khilath \u201cHilath\u201d Rasheed, has been banned by the Communications Authority, and is said to be highly critical of religious fundamentalism. The blogger believes his site has been targeted because he is a Sufi Muslim. Rasheed plans\u00a0to bring his case to court, as a website shut by the government can only be reopened by a court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldivan government has\u00a0ordered a ban on the blog of a freelance writer on the grounds it\u00a0contained anti-Islamic material. The blog (www.hilath.com), run by independent journalist Ismail Khilath \u201cHilath\u201d Rasheed, has been banned by the Communications Authority, and is said to be highly critical of religious fundamentalism. The blogger believes his site has been targeted [&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":[4061,584,585],"tags":[661,4002,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29763"}],"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=29763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29765,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29763\/revisions\/29765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}