{"id":24630,"date":"2011-07-05T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24630"},"modified":"2011-07-06T13:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:44:16","slug":"belarus-protesters-arrested-journalists-targeted-in-teargas-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24630","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Protesters arrested, journalists targeted in teargas attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 300 people were reportedly arrested on Sunday in nationwide demonstrations against President <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Alexander Lukashenko\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/alexander-lukashenko\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>\u2019s government. Teargas was also fired to disperse the crowd. Some journalists have claimed that they were targeted in the attacks in a bid to prevent them from filming or taking photographs. In the capital, Minsk, the crowds attempted to disrupt Lukashenko\u2019s Independence Day by <a title=\"AlJazeera: Dozens arrested in &quot;clapping protest&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/europe\/2011\/07\/201173184516320207.html\" target=\"_blank\">clapping their hands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 300 people were reportedly arrested on Sunday in nationwide demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s government. Teargas was also fired to disperse the crowd. Some journalists have claimed that they were targeted in the attacks in a bid to prevent them from filming or taking photographs. In the capital, Minsk, the crowds attempted to disrupt [&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":[3072,7379,2371,3523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630"}],"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=24630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24659,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630\/revisions\/24659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}