{"id":32023,"date":"2012-01-16T17:10:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32023"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:10:16","slug":"burma-journalists-freelancers-and-blogger-freed-under-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32023","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Journalists, freelancers, and blogger freed under amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of journalists and bloggers have been <a title=\"RSF : ALL DVB JOURNALISTS, FREELANCERS AND BLOGGER FREED UNDER AMNESTY\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/burma-dvb-journalists-freelancers-and-13-01-2012,41675.html\" target=\"_blank\">released from prison<\/a> under amnesty in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Burma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Burma\" target=\"_blank\">Burma<\/a>.\u00a0Hla Hla Win,\u00a0Ngwe Soe Lin,\u00a0Win Maw,\u00a0Sithu Zeya from exile radio and TV station\u00a0Democratic Voice of Burma, freelance journalists\u00a0Thant Zin Aung\u00a0and\u00a0Zaw Thet Htwe and\u00a0the blogger\u00a0Nay Phone Latt have all been released. Throughout their imprisonment, DVB ran the &#8220;<a title=\"Free Burma VJ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freeburmavj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free Burma VJ<\/a>&#8221; campaign, calling for the release of the journalists. Around 600 other prisoners were <a title=\"Guardian :Burma's prisoner amnesty reunites families separated for years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/13\/burma-prisoner-amnesty-reunites-families?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">also freed<\/a> in the amnesty on Friday. The move is the latest in a series of increasingly radical reforms over recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of journalists and bloggers have been released from prison under amnesty in Burma.\u00a0Hla Hla Win,\u00a0Ngwe Soe Lin,\u00a0Win Maw,\u00a0Sithu Zeya from exile radio and TV station\u00a0Democratic Voice of Burma, freelance journalists\u00a0Thant Zin Aung\u00a0and\u00a0Zaw Thet Htwe and\u00a0the blogger\u00a0Nay Phone Latt have all been released. Throughout their imprisonment, DVB ran the &#8220;Free Burma VJ&#8221; campaign, calling [&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":[4027,7353,3635,4193,4192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023"}],"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=32023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32048,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions\/32048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}