{"id":48924,"date":"2021-02-22T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=47101e1bc1be61eb13f0409651851302"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:31:31","slug":"record-fine-for-malaysian-news-site-over-readers-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/22\/record-fine-for-malaysian-news-site-over-readers-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Record fine for Malaysian news site over readers\u2019 comments"},"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\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the record fine imposed on Malaysiakini, one of Malaysia\u2019s leading investigative news sites, for readers\u2019 comments critical of the judiciary, and the subsequent sedition investigation into its editor for criticizing the court\u2019s decision. This is liable to result in more self-censorship in the media, RSF warned, reiterating its call for the government to show that it is determined to defend press freedom.<\/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>A website renowned for investigating corruption, <em>Malaysiakini<\/em> was fined 500,000 ringgits (nearly 100,000 euros) by a federal court on 19 February after being found guilty of contempt of co<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/record-fine-malaysian-news-site-over-readers-comments\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the record fine imposed on Malaysiakini, one of Malaysia\u2019s leading investigative news sites, for readers\u2019 comments critical of the judiciary, and the subsequent sedition investigation into its editor for cri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"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\/48924"}],"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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48925,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924\/revisions\/48925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}