{"id":24545,"date":"2021-02-03T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/openindia\/india-turning-colonial-era-laws-silence-journalists\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:16:47","slug":"india-is-turning-to-colonial-era-laws-to-silence-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/03\/india-is-turning-to-colonial-era-laws-to-silence-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"India is turning to colonial-era laws to silence journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sedition charges are just the latest attempt by Narendra Modi\u2019s government to undermine a free press. They must be opposed.\u00a0<\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opendemocracy\/~4\/o5e_e2SpJS8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/opendemocracy\/~3\/o5e_e2SpJS8\/\">openDemocracy RSS<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sedition charges are just the latest attempt by Narendra Modi\u2019s government to undermine a free press. They must be opposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1712,"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\/24545"}],"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\/1712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24546,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions\/24546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}