{"id":15901,"date":"2010-09-21T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=15901"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:20:45","slug":"canada-website-operator-charged-with-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=15901","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Website operator charged with libel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Friday that a blogger in Calvary <a title=\"Calgary Herald: Police Lay Charges of Libel, Obstruction Against Calgary Webiste Operator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Police+charges+libel+obstruction+against+Calgary+website+operator\/3539705\/story.html#ixzz104APPuqQ\" target=\"_blank\">faces five charges related to his website<\/a>. John Kelly, 53, has<a title=\"Calgary Herald: Charges expected for website critical of Calgary police officers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Charges+expected+website+critical+Calgary+police+officers\/3538714\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> long been <\/a>highly critical of Calgary police officers, using his site to accuse officers of\u00a0\u201cperjury, corruption and destroying evidence\u201d\u00a0according to the RCMP.\u00a0Charges include four counts of publishing libellous statements on the Internet against specific police officers between November 2009 and Sept. 4, 2010. Critics of the Defamatory Libel law <a title=\"Rabble: The Case Against John Kelly\" href=\"http:\/\/rabble.ca\/blogs\/bloggers\/djclimenhaga\/2010\/09\/case-against-john-kelly-canadas-unconstitutional-defamatory-libe\" target=\"_blank\">assert that <\/a>it \u201cviolates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Friday that a blogger in Calvary faces five charges related to his website. John Kelly, 53, has long been highly critical of Calgary police officers, using his site to accuse officers of\u00a0\u201cperjury, corruption and destroying evidence\u201d\u00a0according to the RCMP.\u00a0Charges include four counts of publishing libellous statements on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[7393,241,64,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15903,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions\/15903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}