{"id":24309,"date":"2011-06-24T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24309"},"modified":"2011-06-24T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:53:59","slug":"belarus-protesters-use-social-media-to-organise-co-ordinate-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24309","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Protesters use social media to organise co-ordinate efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists used popular Russian social network, <a title=\"Social Media Lessons from Russia and the UK: Why Facebook won't beat Russia's Vkontakte\" href=\"http:\/\/katyatrubilova.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/01\/why-facebook-won%E2%80%99t-beat-russia%E2%80%99s-vkontakte\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vkontakte<\/a>, and Twitter hashtag, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/search\/%232206v1900\" target=\"_blank\">#2206v1900<\/a>, to organise protest action in towns all over <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belarus<\/a> on 22 June. Over 1, 000 people gathered for a rally in <a title=\"You Tube: Amateur footage of Minsk rally\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l1FzXMr2qeo&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Minsk<\/a> despite warnings to would-be protesters from local police about &#8220;possible administrative charges for participating in unsanctioned protests&#8221;. Throughout the day Vkontakte group, &#8220;Movement of the Future&#8221;, with over 200, 000 members, tweeted regularly. A total of 450 protesters were arrested during the \u201csilent\u201d<a title=\"Global Voices Online: Police crack down on Minsk protest\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/06\/24\/belarus-police-crack-down-on-minsk-protest\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\"> anti-government demonstrations<\/a>, many remain in detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists used popular Russian social network, Vkontakte, and Twitter hashtag, #2206v1900, to organise protest action in towns all over Belarus on 22 June. Over 1, 000 people gathered for a rally in Minsk despite warnings to would-be protesters from local police about &#8220;possible administrative charges for participating in unsanctioned protests&#8221;. Throughout the day Vkontakte group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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],"tags":[7379,574,3523,3444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309"}],"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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}