{"id":31323,"date":"2011-12-20T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31323"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:13:27","slug":"malawi-police-are-playwright-over-sensitive-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31323","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Police arrest playwright over sensitive play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A playwright has been arrested <a title=\"NYASA Times : Police arrest Thlupego Chisiza for \u2018Chasowa\u2019 play\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/malawi\/2011\/12\/18\/police-arrest-thlupego-chisiza-for-%E2%80%98chasowa%E2%80%99-play\/\" target=\"_blank\">whilst performing a play<\/a> which was deemed critical of the government in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Malawi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Malawi\" target=\"_blank\">Malawi<\/a>. Thlupego Chisiza was arrested on Sunday after armed police stormed the\u00a0Lions Theater \u00a0in Blantyre, where he was performing the play SEMO. The play, which was co-written by student activist <a title=\"Malawi Voice : The Robert Chasowa mystery untangled\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malawivoice.com\/national-news\/the-robert-chasowa-mystery-untangled\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Chasowa<\/a>, who died in mysterious circumstances, criticises the governments handling of laws which are believed to have regressed the country back to dictatorship. The authorities claimed\u00a0Chisiza failed to send the play to the board of classification for vetting, which the playwright denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A playwright has been arrested whilst performing a play which was deemed critical of the government in Malawi. Thlupego Chisiza was arrested on Sunday after armed police stormed the\u00a0Lions Theater \u00a0in Blantyre, where he was performing the play SEMO. The play, which was co-written by student activist Robert Chasowa, who died in mysterious circumstances, criticises [&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":[346,1704,4113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323"}],"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=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31339,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions\/31339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}