{"id":26162,"date":"2011-08-30T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26162"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:52:01","slug":"ecuador-journalist-sentenced-to-prison-flees-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26162","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Journalist sentenced to prison flees to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being sentenced to three years in prison for defamation, an <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuado\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuadorian<\/a> journalist has <a title=\"Knight Center - Ecuadorian journalist sentenced to prison flees to Miami  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/en\/node\/7188\" target=\"_blank\">fled the country and sought refuge in Miami<\/a>, according to newspaper reports. <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Emilio Palacio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/emilio-palacio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emilio Palacio <\/a>of El Universo, who was sued for criticising President Rafael Correa, arrived in the United States on 24 August. \u201cI&#8217;d have to be blind to not understand that they want me behind bars,&#8221; he said in a letter spread via <a title=\"Twitter - Emilio Palacio\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Emilio_Palacio\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> on\u00a028 August. Meanwhile, El Universo has published a letter directed at President Correa asking him to stop the legal action against the journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being sentenced to three years in prison for defamation, an Ecuadorian journalist has fled the country and sought refuge in Miami, according to newspaper reports. Emilio Palacio of El Universo, who was sued for criticising President Rafael Correa, arrived in the United States on 24 August. \u201cI&#8217;d have to be blind to not understand [&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":[7423,3717,3687,727,2457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162"}],"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=26162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26173,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162\/revisions\/26173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}