{"id":31655,"date":"2012-01-04T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31655"},"modified":"2012-01-04T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:18:24","slug":"vietnam-nguyen-van-khuong-police-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31655","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: Journalist who exposed corruption arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Van Khuong was <a title=\"IFEX \/ RSF - Newspaper reporter arrested for undercover investigation of police corruption \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/vietnam\/2012\/01\/03\/khuong_arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a>\u00a0this week on suspicion of bribery after he ran an expose on corruption among\u00a0traffic police in his newspaper, Tuoi Tre. The reporter is said to have paid a bribe of 15 million dong (458 GBP) to a police officer to secure the release of an impounded vehicle. The officer in question was arrested after Khuong\u2019s story was published, and Khuong was suspended by the paper on 3 December.\u00a0Tuoi Tre <a title=\"The Philippine Star \/ AP - Vietnam journalist who exposed corruption arrested  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/Article.aspx?articleId=764534&amp;publicationSubCategoryId=200\" target=\"_blank\">quoted<\/a> him as saying he had made an error in gathering evidence for a series of stories about police corruption, but he did not say he had provided the bribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Van Khuong was arrested\u00a0this week on suspicion of bribery after he ran an expose on corruption among\u00a0traffic police in his newspaper, Tuoi Tre. The reporter is said to have paid a bribe of 15 million dong (458 GBP) to a police officer to secure the release of an impounded vehicle. The officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[202,4145,727,4146,7397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31655"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31666,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions\/31666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}