{"id":23903,"date":"2011-06-16T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23903"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:46:52","slug":"belarus-journalist-faces-four-years-in-prison-for-insulting-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23903","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Journalist faces four years in prison for &#8220;insulting the president&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Pochobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Gazeta Wyborcza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/gazeta-wyborcza\/\" target=\"_blank\"> GazetaWyborcza <\/a>who stands accused of defamation and \u201cinsulting the president\u201d, is facing a four-year prison sentence. The trial began yesterday in Leninski district court, <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belarus<\/a>, with journalists and family members excluded from proceedings. There are\u00a0 now serious concerns over whether Pochobut will receive a fair trial. The offending articles appeared on the Gazeta Wyborcza website, the <a title=\"Belaruspartisan.org: Home page\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=ru&amp;u=http:\/\/www.belaruspartisan.org\/&amp;ei=1xn7TevnAsqDOqLM5aIE&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCwQ7gEwAA&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dbelarus%2Bpartisan%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D578%26prmd%3Divns\" target=\"_blank\">Belaruspartisan.org<\/a> site and in his personal blog. Pochobut would be the fourth journalist sent to prison on a charge of &#8220;insulting the president&#8221; if he is found guilty. The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Pochobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza who stands accused of defamation and \u201cinsulting the president\u201d, is facing a four-year prison sentence. The trial began yesterday in Leninski district court, Belarus, with journalists and family members excluded from proceedings. There are\u00a0 now serious concerns over whether Pochobut will receive a fair trial. The [&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":[7379,241,3296,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903"}],"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=23903"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79200,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions\/79200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}