{"id":30420,"date":"2019-01-24T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30420"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:23:31","slug":"venezuela-shuts-down-internet-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30420","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela shuts down Internet amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"73\">\n<p>While some have been standing by the opposition who are calling for President Nicolas Maduro to step down, there have also been pro-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead up to Wednesday&#8217;s march, internet freedom groups have been reporting an ongoing internet shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Netblocks.org, a global NGO that monitors internet access says: &#8220;Authorities shut down the internet in Venezuela, during a time when the public needs to be most informed&#8221; and &#8220;this violates both digital rights and human rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Raheela Mahomed reports.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Rym Bendimerad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some have been standing by the opposition who are calling for President Nicolas Maduro to step down, there have also been pro-government protests. In the lead up to Wednesday&#8217;s march, internet freedom groups have been reporting an ongoing internet shutdown. Netblocks.org, a global NGO that monitors internet access says: &#8220;Authorities shut down the internet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}