{"id":21866,"date":"2011-03-29T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=21866"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:38:23","slug":"czech-republic-grants-asylum-to-belarusian-opposition-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=21866","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic grants asylum to Belarusian opposition candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian politician Ales Mikhalevich has been <a title=\"The Washington Post: Czech Republic grants asylum to Belarus opposition presidential candidate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/czech-republic-grants-asylum-to-belarus-opposition-presidential-candidate\/2011\/03\/24\/AB2kq1NB_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">granted<\/a> political refugee <a title=\"Czech Position: Belarusian opposition politician granted asylum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ceskapozice.cz\/en\/news\/politics-policy\/belarusian-opposition-politician-granted-asylum\" target=\"_blank\">status<\/a> in the Czech Republic. He was<a title=\"Radio Free Europe: Exiled Belarusian presidential candidate senses opposition's moment to unify\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/belarus_mikhalevich_lukashenka_asylum_czech_republic\/3540152.html\" target=\"_blank\"> imprisoned<\/a> after <a title=\"Deutsche Welle: Belarus opposition figure finds safe haven in Czech Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,14941724,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">running<\/a> against Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus&#8217; presidential elections. He claims that he was tortured in the custody of secret police, and was stripped naked and hung by his hands. Mikhalevich was one of the seven other candidates <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Belarus's New Order\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2010\/12\/belarus-lukashenko-new-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> during pro-democracy protests which saw more than 700 people detained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian politician Ales Mikhalevich has been granted political refugee status in the Czech Republic. He was imprisoned after running against Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus&#8217; presidential elections. He claims that he was tortured in the custody of secret police, and was stripped naked and hung by his hands. Mikhalevich was one of the seven other candidates [&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":[3267,3072,7379,7411,16,3269,354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866"}],"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=21866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79225,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866\/revisions\/79225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}