{"id":2520,"date":"2012-07-05T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2012-07-06T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T05:11:26","slug":"longman-writes-an-op-ed-about-rwanda-and-free-speech-for-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/2012\/07\/05\/longman-writes-an-op-ed-about-rwanda-and-free-speech-for-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Longman Writes NY Times Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the African Studies Center published an Op-Ed in the New York Times on June 29th. Longman, an expert in African politics highlights the ways that Rwanda\u2019s seemingly progressive and well regarded post-genocide government suppresses political dissent. You can read the whole piece here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/30\/opinion\/stifled-dissent-in-rwanda.html?_r=1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/30\/opinion\/stifled-dissent-in-rwanda.html?_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the African Studies Center published an Op-Ed in the New York Times on June 29th. Longman, an expert in African politics highlights the ways that Rwanda\u2019s seemingly progressive and well regarded post-genocide government suppresses political dissent. You can read the whole piece here: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/30\/opinion\/stifled-dissent-in-rwanda.html?_r=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}