{"id":31183,"date":"2011-12-19T13:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31183"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:38:04","slug":"china-news-blackout-on-wukan-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31183","title":{"rendered":"China: News blackout on Wukan revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News reports of an uprising that began several days ago in Wukan <a title=\"IFEX : Government imposes media blackout on village protests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/china\/2011\/12\/16\/blocked_news_reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">have been blocked<\/a> by the <a title=\"Index on Censorship : China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/China\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese<\/a> government. Coverage <a title=\"Telegraph : Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/8954315\/Inside-Wukan-the-Chinese-village-that-fought-back.html\" target=\"_blank\">of the protests<\/a>, which began following\u00a0the death of a local villager Xue Jinbo,\u00a0and political interference in local elections, has <a title=\"Eurasia Review : China: News Blackout On Wukan Revolt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/19122011-china-news-blackout-on-wukan-revolt\/\" target=\"_blank\">not been covered<\/a> by any Chinese language media. Wukan residents dispute the claim that Jinbo died from a heart attack, believing he was tortured to death. In China, the story has only been covered by the English-language edition of an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, &#8220;Global Times&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News reports of an uprising that began several days ago in Wukan have been blocked by the Chinese government. Coverage of the protests, which began following\u00a0the death of a local villager Xue Jinbo,\u00a0and political interference in local elections, has not been covered by any Chinese language media. Wukan residents dispute the claim that Jinbo died [&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":[584,585],"tags":[103,7364,346,727,212,4109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183"}],"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=31183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31199,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183\/revisions\/31199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}