{"id":5173,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/1970\/01\/01\/as-the-modi-government-continues-its-crackdown-on-dissent-and-independent-journalism\/"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"as-the-modi-government-continues-its-crackdown-on-dissent-and-independent-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/1970\/01\/01\/as-the-modi-government-continues-its-crackdown-on-dissent-and-independent-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"As the Modi government continues its crackdown on dissent and independent journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> press freedom advocates are sounding the alarm about the state of media freedom in India. The arrest of Siddique Kappan has highlighted the challenges faced by journalists in the country and the need to protect press freedom from government overreach. Critics warn that the erosion of press freedom in India poses a threat to democracy and accountability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>press freedom advocates are sounding the alarm about the state of media freedom in India. The arrest of Siddique Kappan has highlighted the challenges faced by journalists in the country and the need to protect press freedom from government overreach. Critics warn that the erosion of press freedom in India poses a threat to democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"vanillanews","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/vanillanews\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/infocus\/\" rel=\"category tag\">IN FOCUS<\/a>","tag_info":"IN FOCUS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}