{"id":26807,"date":"2011-09-14T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26807"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:54:35","slug":"belarus-11-more-political-prisoners-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26807","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: 11 more political prisoners pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belarusian<\/a> president Alexander Lukashenko has today <a href=\"http:\/\/nn.by\/?c=ar&amp;i=60046\" target=\"_blank\">pardoned 11 more political prisoners<\/a>sentenced for taking part in anti-government protests on 19 December 2010. The full list of names is not yet known, but Index believes that activists\u00a0Pavel Vinogradov and\u00a0Fyodor Mirzayanov\u00a0are among those released.<\/p>\n<p>Around five others remain in prison. A government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.gov.by\/press128698.html#doc\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> stated that Lukashenko had been &#8220;guided by the principles of humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In August, The Royal Bank of Scotland announced that it will no longer engage in \u201cany type of capital-raising\u201d on behalf of the government of Belarus after an Index on Censorship and <a title=\"Free Belarus Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freebelarusnow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free Belarus Now<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has today pardoned 11 more political prisonerssentenced for taking part in anti-government protests on 19 December 2010. The full list of names is not yet known, but Index believes that activists\u00a0Pavel Vinogradov and\u00a0Fyodor Mirzayanov\u00a0are among those released. Around five others remain in prison. A government press release stated that Lukashenko had [&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":[584,585,581],"tags":[3072,7379,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807"}],"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=26807"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84065,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807\/revisions\/84065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}