{"id":25569,"date":"2011-08-15T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25569"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:12:48","slug":"ecuador-president-criticises-press-papers-call-for-free-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25569","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: President criticises press, papers call for free expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several major <a title=\"index on Censorship - Ecuador\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuadorian<\/a> newspapers ran the same cover on 10th August, titled \u201cFor Freedom of Expression\u201d, in protest against President Rafael Correa\u2019s increasing verbal and legal attacks on independent media. The President devoted 42 minutes of his <a title=\"Knight Center: Ecuadorian president criticizes press in State of the Union address\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/ecuadorian-president-criticizes-press-state-union-address\" target=\"_blank\">State of the Union speech<\/a> to criticism of the press, and during his weekly TV broadcast also <a title=\"IFEX: President urges legislators to file charges against journalist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/ecuador\/2011\/08\/10\/hinostroza_harassed\/\" target=\"_blank\">urged the public to file lawsuits<\/a> against what he called the &#8220;corrupt press&#8221;, name-checking \u00a0reporter Jeanette Hinostroza for having commented on political negotiations related to appointments within the National Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several major Ecuadorian newspapers ran the same cover on 10th August, titled \u201cFor Freedom of Expression\u201d, in protest against President Rafael Correa\u2019s increasing verbal and legal attacks on independent media. The President devoted 42 minutes of his State of the Union speech to criticism of the press, and during his weekly TV broadcast also urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[103,7423,727,2457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25587,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569\/revisions\/25587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}