{"id":21927,"date":"2011-03-31T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=21927"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:38:09","slug":"polish-journalist-faces-prosecution-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=21927","title":{"rendered":"Polish journalist faces prosecution in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Belarusian authorities have <\/span><a title=\"CPJ: Reporter for polish paper faces insult charge in Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/03\/reporter-for-polish-paper-faces-insult-charge-in-b.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">filed charges<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"> against journalist Andrzej Poczobut. Poczobut works for the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. He is charged with <\/span><a title=\"EPP Group: Belarus: all charges against journalist Andrzej Poczobut must be dropped immediately. Jacek Protasiewicz MEP and Jacek Saryusz-Wolski MEP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eppgroup.eu\/press\/showpr.asp?prcontroldoctypeid=1&amp;prcontrolid=10234&amp;prcontentid=17337&amp;prcontentlg=en\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">insulting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"> the Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in articles that were published in the newspaper and on a Belurasian news website, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Belarussky Partizan. The charges against <span lang=\"EN-US\">Poczobut could result in a two year prison sentence if convicted. Poczobut, who has faced harrasment at the hands of Belarusian authorities before, including being arrested, insisted that he would not leave the country despite the persecution. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian authorities have filed charges against journalist Andrzej Poczobut. Poczobut works for the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. He is charged with insulting the Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in articles that were published in the newspaper and on a Belurasian news website, Belarussky Partizan. The charges against Poczobut could result in a two year prison sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[3298,3295,3296,3299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21927"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84032,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions\/84032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}