{"id":32773,"date":"2012-11-29T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32773"},"modified":"2012-11-29T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:30:03","slug":"bbc-syrian-internet-and-mobile-communication-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/29\/bbc-syrian-internet-and-mobile-communication-cut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Syrian Internet and mobile communication &#8216;cut off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has been cut off and mobile phones have been disrupted in Syria, monitoring firms have said.<\/p>\n<p>Networking firm Renesys said the country&#8217;s connection protocols were unreachable, &#8220;effectively removing the country from the internet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Local reports suggested that the internet had been down since early afternoon, and that telephone lines were only working intermittently.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government has blamed &#8220;terrorists&#8221; for the disconnection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The terrorists targeted the internet lines, resulting in some regions being cut off,&#8221; Syria&#8217;s minister of information told a pro-government television station.<\/p>\n<p>According to activists, it has been known for similar communication cuts to occur in isolated areas before military operations.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has described the reports as &#8220;very disturbing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-20546302\" title=\"Syrian Internet shut down\" target=\"_blank\"> here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has been cut off and mobile phones have been disrupted in Syria, monitoring firms have said. Networking firm Renesys said the country&#8217;s connection protocols were unreachable, &#8220;effectively removing the country from the internet&#8221;. Local reports suggested that the internet had been down since early afternoon, and that telephone lines were only working intermittently. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32774,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32773\/revisions\/32774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}