{"id":410833,"date":"2021-11-30T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T11:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/hungarian-academic-andrea-peto-quits-in-censorship-row"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T11:40:49","slug":"how-dictatorship-works-hungarian-academic-quits-in-censorship-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/30\/how-dictatorship-works-hungarian-academic-quits-in-censorship-row\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How dictatorship works\u2019: Hungarian academic quits in censorship row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Pet\u0151 was asked to withdraw criticism that a Europe-wide standards group had failed to confront illiberalism in Hungary and Poland<\/p><p>A prominent academic has resigned from a Hungarian higher education body, alleging censorship and accusing the top European standards organisation of turning a blind eye to waning academic freedom in central Europe.<\/p><p>Andrea Pet\u0151, a professor at the Central European University in Vienna, said she had resigned from the Hungarian Accreditation Committee\u2019s humanities subcommittee last week after she was asked to change part of an article she wrote that was due to be published in an academic journal.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/hungarian-academic-andrea-peto-quits-in-censorship-row\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/hungarian-academic-andrea-peto-quits-in-censorship-row\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Pet\u0151 was asked to withdraw criticism that a Europe-wide standards group had failed to confront illiberalism in Hungary and PolandA prominent academic has resigned from a Hungarian higher education body, alleging censorship and accusing the top E&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,428,471,429,6,333,640,8139,281,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410833"}],"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\/6516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410834,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410833\/revisions\/410834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}