{"id":1254707,"date":"2023-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=732a5ef3cecd306f0bcd6f99b2524718"},"modified":"2023-10-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"india-modi-government-raids-independent-media-arrests-journalists-in-latest-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/09\/india-modi-government-raids-independent-media-arrests-journalists-in-latest-crackdown-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Modi government raids independent media, arrests journalists in latest crackdown on dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police crackdown on independent media platform <em>NewsClick<\/em> in India, on October 3, is the latest attempt by the Narendra Modi government to stifle journalists and critics of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime, reports <strong>Isaac Nellist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/glw_smallscreen\/public\/aisa_freedom_of_speech_protest.jpeg?itok=c0szwmBr\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" alt=\"Freedom of speech protest\" title=\"Freedom of speech protest\" \/>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/content\/india-modi-government-raids-independent-media-arrests-journalists-latest-crackdown-dissent\">Green Left<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police crackdown on independent media platform NewsClick in India, on October 3, is the latest attempt by the Narendra Modi government to stifle journalists and critics of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime, reports Isaac Nellist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254708,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254707\/revisions\/1254708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}