{"id":25696,"date":"2011-08-18T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25696"},"modified":"2011-08-18T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:28:33","slug":"kazakhstan-imprisoned-journalist%e2%80%99s-parole-request-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25696","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan: Imprisoned journalist\u2019s parole request rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imprisoned journalist <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ramazan Esergepov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ramazan-esergepov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ramazan Esergepov<\/a>\u2019s request for release on parole was <a title=\"RSF - Imprisoned journalist's parole request rejected again\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/kazakhstan-journalist-kept-in-prison-against-22-02-2011,39597.html\" target=\"_blank\">rejected<\/a> for the fourth time yesterday by an appeal commission in Taraz prison, southern <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Kazakhstan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/kazakhstan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kazakhstan<\/a>, although under Kazakh law a prisoner can be freed conditionally after serving a third of their sentence. The former owner and editor of the weekly Alma-Ata Info, he was sentenced to three years in prison on 8 August 2009 on a charge of gathering and publishing information that was considered a state secret.\u00a0He was arrested on 6 January 2009 after publishing an article implicating the National Security Committee (KNB) in influence-trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imprisoned journalist Ramazan Esergepov\u2019s request for release on parole was rejected for the fourth time yesterday by an appeal commission in Taraz prison, southern Kazakhstan, although under Kazakh law a prisoner can be freed conditionally after serving a third of their sentence. The former owner and editor of the weekly Alma-Ata Info, he was sentenced [&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":[7404,727,1259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25696"}],"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=25696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25721,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25696\/revisions\/25721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}