{"id":32170,"date":"2012-01-18T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32170"},"modified":"2012-01-18T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:48:53","slug":"malta-censorship-laws-revamp-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32170","title":{"rendered":"Malta: Censorship laws revamp announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Malta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Malta\" target=\"_blank\">Maltese<\/a> government have announced plans to <a title=\"Times of Malta : Censorship laws revamp announced\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20120117\/local\/censorship-laws-for-theatre-and-cinema-being-lifted.402732\" target=\"_blank\">over-haul censorship<\/a> laws which affect stage performances and films. A three week consultation process has been launched with regards to newly proposed laws which aim to &#8220;fulfil the aspirations of the artistic community.&#8221;\u00a0Tourism and Culture Minister Mario de Marco explained\u00a0that the proposed amendments will move towards a system of <a title=\"Malta Today : New self-regulation system to replace theatre censors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maltatoday.com.mt\/en\/magazinedetails\/magazine\/theatreanddance\/New-self-regulation-system-to-replace-theatre-censors-20120117\" target=\"_blank\">self-regulation<\/a>.\u00a0The amendments also propose that the cinema and stage regulations will be transferred from the police laws to the law which regulates the Malta Council for the Arts. De Marco regretted that current laws may have failed some people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maltese government have announced plans to over-haul censorship laws which affect stage performances and films. A three week consultation process has been launched with regards to newly proposed laws which aim to &#8220;fulfil the aspirations of the artistic community.&#8221;\u00a0Tourism and Culture Minister Mario de Marco explained\u00a0that the proposed amendments will move towards a system [&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":[103,968,346,1856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170"}],"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=32170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32174,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170\/revisions\/32174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}