{"id":32426,"date":"2012-01-25T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T10:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32426"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:33:41","slug":"burma-censors-tighten-grip-ahead-of-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32426","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Censors tighten grip ahead of by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Irawaddy: Burma's Censors Tighten Grip Ahead of By-election\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irrawaddy.org\/article.php?art_id=22907\" target=\"_blank\">New restrictions<\/a> are being imposed on the <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Burma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Burma\" target=\"_blank\">Burmese<\/a> media, despite earlier calls from the country&#8217;s censor chief to ease restrictions. Ahead of April&#8217;s by-elections, Tint Swe, director of the Burmese\u00a0Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, warned newspaper editors that\u00a0\u201caction will be taken\u201d against publications which do not adhere to guidelines from the censorship board. <a title=\"Index on Censorship : BURMA: CENSOR CHIEF CALLS FOR MORE MEDIA FREEDOM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/10\/burma-censor-chief-calls-for-more-media-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">In October<\/a>, Swe made calls for\u00a0<a title=\"BBC - Burma censor chief calls for more media freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-15227175\" target=\"_blank\">greater media freedom<\/a>\u00a0and the abolition of censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New restrictions are being imposed on the Burmese media, despite earlier calls from the country&#8217;s censor chief to ease restrictions. Ahead of April&#8217;s by-elections, Tint Swe, director of the Burmese\u00a0Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, warned newspaper editors that\u00a0\u201caction will be taken\u201d against publications which do not adhere to guidelines from the censorship board. In October, [&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":[7353,103,727,3309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32426"}],"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=32426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32449,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32426\/revisions\/32449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}