{"id":25913,"date":"2011-08-23T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T11:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25913"},"modified":"2011-08-23T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T11:09:37","slug":"ecuador-journalist-facing-jail-presents-video-evidence-against-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25913","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Journalist facing jail presents video evidence against president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Emilio Palacio, who was last month <a title=\"Knight Center - Ecuador sentences newspaper directors to jail and millions in fines in president\u2019s libel suit  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/ecuador-sentences-newspaper-directors-jail-and-millions-fines-president%E2%80%99s-libel-suit\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years in prison and fined 40 million USD<\/a> for calling <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuador\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuadorian<\/a> President Rafael Correa a &#8220;dictator,&#8221; <a title=\"Knight Center - Ecuadorian journalist facing jail presents video evidence against President Correa  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/ecuadorian-journalist-facing-jail-presents-video-evidence-against-president-correa\" target=\"_blank\">presented a video to the district attorney<\/a> on 18 August that he will use to appeal his sentence.\u00a0Palacio presented an anonymous\u00a0video in which Correa orders his agents to take control of police strikes and protests in September. In the video, Correa\u00a0states that\u00a0those responsible should be &#8220;shot in the chest for treason&#8221;. Palacio said the video contradicts the president&#8217;s original testimony that he did not order the military to fire on protesting police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Emilio Palacio, who was last month sentenced to three years in prison and fined 40 million USD for calling Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa a &#8220;dictator,&#8221; presented a video to the district attorney on 18 August that he will use to appeal his sentence.\u00a0Palacio presented an anonymous\u00a0video in which Correa orders his agents to take [&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":[7423,3687,743,727,2457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913"}],"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=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25916,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/25916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}