{"id":33656,"date":"2012-03-05T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33656"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:37:00","slug":"tajikistan-access-to-facebook-news-sites-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33656","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan: Access to Facebook, news sites blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reuters: Tajikistan blocks access to Facebook, news sites\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/03\/03\/oukin-uk-tajikistan-facebook-idUKTRE8220JC20120303\">Local access<\/a> to\u00a0Facebook and two\u00a0Russian-language websites has been blocked in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Tajikistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Tajikistan\" target=\"_blank\">Tajikistan<\/a>, following articles critical\u00a0of the country&#8217;s long serving\u00a0president. Users attempting to access Facebook,\u00a0tjknews.com or zvezda.ru are automatically re-directed to the home page of their provider. The shutdown was ordered by the state-run communications service after the two websites published articles critical of\u00a0President Imomali Rakhmon.\u00a0Several Facebook groups openly discuss politics and some users have been critical of the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local access to\u00a0Facebook and two\u00a0Russian-language websites has been blocked in Tajikistan, following articles critical\u00a0of the country&#8217;s long serving\u00a0president. Users attempting to access Facebook,\u00a0tjknews.com or zvezda.ru are automatically re-directed to the home page of their provider. The shutdown was ordered by the state-run communications service after the two websites published articles critical of\u00a0President Imomali Rakhmon.\u00a0Several Facebook [&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":[4059,584,585],"tags":[136,346,4381,727,7419,3155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656"}],"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=33656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33666,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656\/revisions\/33666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}