{"id":5386,"date":"2014-10-02T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2014-10-02T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:14:43","slug":"egypt-seizes-newspapers-to-censor-an-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-seizes-newspapers-to-censor-an-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Seizes Newspapers to Censor an Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO \u2014 The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country\u2019s largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was \u201cno limitation on freedom of expression in Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the censorship is another example of constriction of news media freedom since the military takeover in July 2013 that brought Mr. Sisi to power. The article, in the newspaper Al Masry Al Youm, was the latest installment in a serialized interview conducted with a senior spy before he died&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/02\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-seizes-newspapers-to-censor-an-article.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO \u2014 The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country\u2019s largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was \u201cno limitation on freedom of expression in Egypt.\u201d In fact, the censorship is another [&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":[338],"tags":[953,258,256,4224,4697,415,257,4223,4694,254],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fattah-el-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-masry-al-youm","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-no-limitation-on-freedom-of-expression-in-egypt","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","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=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/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=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}