{"id":21827,"date":"2011-03-29T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=21827"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:38:27","slug":"belarus-journalists-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=21827","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Journalists arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Aleksandr Lomashkin and Ales Asiptsu were <a title=\"Reporters Without Borders: Increased harassment of journalists on eve of Freedom Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/belarus-increased-harassment-of-25-03-2011,39889.html\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> in separate incidents on Thursday, 24 March. Both were detained on the eve of <a title=\"Belarus News: Police disrupt Freedom Day events in Minsk\" href=\"http:\/\/naviny.by\/rubrics\/english\/2011\/03\/27\/ic_articles_259_172995\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Freedom Day&#8221;<\/a>, an unofficial holiday traditionally<a title=\"President of the European Parliament: Belarus Freedom Day\" href=\"http:\/\/proxy.ep-president.eu\/president\/view\/en\/press\/press_release\/2011\/2011-March\/press_release-2011-March-40.html\" target=\"_blank\"> celebrated <\/a>by members of the opposition. Lomashkin is a Russian journalist who worked in Belarus and founded the human rights website <a title=\"Svoboda News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.svobodanews.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\">Svoboda<\/a>. He was forced to get off a train at the Belarusian border and was searched by two officers who claimed that they were looking for drugs. He was <a title=\"Radio Free Europe: Belarus jails Russian journalist, then &quot;annuls accreditation&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/belarus_jails_russian_journalist_annuls_accreditation\/3539464.html\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> for &#8220;insulting an officer&#8221; and imprisoned for three days. Asipstu is an independent Belarusian journalist who was also arrested for allegedly &#8220;urinating in a public place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Aleksandr Lomashkin and Ales Asiptsu were arrested in separate incidents on Thursday, 24 March. Both were detained on the eve of &#8220;Freedom Day&#8221;, an unofficial holiday traditionally celebrated by members of the opposition. Lomashkin is a Russian journalist who worked in Belarus and founded the human rights website Svoboda. He was forced to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"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":[584,585,581],"tags":[3262,3263,7379,2587,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79226,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions\/79226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}