{"id":80601,"date":"2016-07-01T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=80601"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:25:44","slug":"azerbaijans-war-independent-media-global-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=80601","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan&#8217;s war on independent media (Global Journalist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under President Ilham Aliyev, the economy of Azerbaijan has expanded spectacularly. An oil boom has fueled a 10 fold increase in the size of its economy since he took power in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>But under Aliyev, the country of 10 million has been one of the hardest and cruelest places in the world for journalists. According to Freedom House, Azerbaijan\u2019s government has used spurious charges to jail journalists and human rights activists. Disseminating information that harms the \u201chonor and dignity\u201d of Aliyev is a criminal offense. Journalists\u2019 telephone calls and internet activity are regularly surveilled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globaljournalist.org\/2016\/07\/azerbaijans-war-on-independent-media-program\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under President Ilham Aliyev, the economy of Azerbaijan has expanded spectacularly. An oil boom has fueled a 10 fold increase in the size of its economy since he took power in 2003. But under Aliyev, the country of 10 million has been one of the hardest and cruelest places in the world for journalists. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8933],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80602,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601\/revisions\/80602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}