{"id":289146,"date":"2021-08-27T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=56f4ec3901071f8513e3232389d466ed"},"modified":"2021-08-27T07:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:45:56","slug":"rsf-condemns-kyrgyzstans-adoption-of-law-restricting-online-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/27\/rsf-condemns-kyrgyzstans-adoption-of-law-restricting-online-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF condemns Kyrgyzstan\u2019s adoption of law restricting online free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Under the guise of fighting online disinformation, Kyrgyzstan\u2019s president has signed a law allowing the authorities to summarily suppress information at the request of any citizen who says they are being defamed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate repeal of this law, which could be used to censor the media.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>The declared aim of the new law protecting \u201ca person\u2019s right to honour, dignity and reputation\u201d is to combat online fake news, but it poses a major threat to the freedom to provide news and informa<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/rsf-condemns-kyrgyzstans-adoption-law-restricting-online-free-speech\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsUnder the guise of fighting online disinformation, Kyrgyzstan\u2019s president has signed a law allowing the authorities to summarily suppress information at the request of any citizen who says they are being defamed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"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\/289146"}],"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\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289147,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289146\/revisions\/289147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}