{"id":3807,"date":"2014-07-09T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:17:52","slug":"south-sudan-security-confiscates-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-security-confiscates-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan security confiscates newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA &#8211; South Sudanese security operatives raided the premises of the independent Citizen newspaper, confiscating all copies of its Monday edition, the paper\u2019s editor-in-chief said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe premises of our offices was surrounded by the heavily security forces today. They came at 5.30am (local time) today in vehicles, surrounded the facility and confiscated the whole paper. They took all the 3,000 copies because we covered the federalism debate,\u201d Nhial Bol Aken told Sudan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why they did that. I don\u2019t know the reasons for targeting us, when we are just doing our work, giving both sides a flat form to present their arguments,\u201d he added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA &#8211; South Sudanese security operatives raided the premises of the independent Citizen newspaper, confiscating all copies of its Monday edition, the paper\u2019s editor-in-chief said. \u201cThe premises of our offices was surrounded by the heavily security forces today. They came at 5.30am (local time) today in vehicles, surrounded the facility and confiscated the whole paper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,4695,880,257,2385,254,4700,733],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-juba","tag-news","tag-raided-the-premises-of-the-independent-citizen-newspaper","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}