{"id":29767,"date":"2011-11-25T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=29767"},"modified":"2011-12-05T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:10:05","slug":"bangladesh-editor-accused-of-extortion-released-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=29767","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Editor accused of extortion released on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news editor of an online news agency has <a title=\"The Daily Star : Sheershanews editor released\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/newDesign\/latest_news.php?nid=33941\" target=\"_blank\">been released<\/a> on bail after being held for nearly four months. Ekramul Haq, the editor of recently closed Sheershanews.com, was released from jail in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Bangladesh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Bangladesh\" target=\"_blank\">Dhaka<\/a> at around 4pm, local time, after he was granted bail by the lower court.\u00a0Haq was arrested on suspicion of extorting Tk 20 lakh (around \u00a317,000) from\u00a0Chittagong businessman Gias Uddin Talukdar on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news editor of an online news agency has been released on bail after being held for nearly four months. Ekramul Haq, the editor of recently closed Sheershanews.com, was released from jail in Dhaka at around 4pm, local time, after he was granted bail by the lower court.\u00a0Haq was arrested on suspicion of extorting Tk [&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":[7367,4004,4003,3944,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29767"}],"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=29767"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29771,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29767\/revisions\/29771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}