{"id":32936,"date":"2012-02-14T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32936"},"modified":"2012-02-14T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:43:41","slug":"egypt-australian-journalist-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32936","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Australian journalist freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian journalist who was <a title=\"CPJ - Australian journalist, translator detained in Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2012\/02\/australian-journalist-translator-detained-in-egypt.php\" target=\"_blank\">detained in Egypt<\/a> on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president Hosni Mubarak has been <a title=\"Journalism.co.uk - Egypt frees Australian journalist arrested covering strikes \" href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/egypt-frees-australian-journalist-arrested-covering-strikes\/s2\/a547858\/\" target=\"_blank\">freed<\/a>. Cairo-based freelance writer Austin Mackell was detained alongside an American student and their Egyptian translator in the northern city of al-Mahalla al-Kubra on Saturday while covering a nationwide strike led by workers. Mackell, who\u00a0<a title=\"Austin Mackell\" href=\"http:\/\/austingmackell.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">writes his own blog<\/a> and has contributed to the Guardian, the Canberra Times and Russia Today, has said he was accused of\u00a0<a title=\"ABC Melbourne - Freed Australian journalist insists he's no spy \" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2012-02-14\/freed-journo-says-he-was-accused-of-spying\/3829452\/?site=melbourne\" target=\"_blank\">spying and inciting people to strike<\/a>, an accusation he denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian journalist who was detained in Egypt on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president Hosni Mubarak has been freed. Cairo-based freelance writer Austin Mackell was detained alongside an American student and their Egyptian translator in the northern city of al-Mahalla al-Kubra on Saturday while covering a nationwide strike led by workers. [&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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[4309,1014,7376,727,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32936"}],"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=32936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32951,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32936\/revisions\/32951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}