{"id":27025,"date":"2011-09-20T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27025"},"modified":"2011-09-20T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:44:53","slug":"russia-bill-for-stricter-responsibility-for-online-libel-drafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27025","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Bill for stricter responsibility for online libel drafted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill introducing\u00a0<a title=\"Global voices - Governor's death rumors provoke harsh reaction among authorities\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/09\/20\/russia-governors-death-rumors-provoke-harsh-reaction-among-authorities\/\" target=\"_blank\">stricter responsibility<\/a> for online libel has been proposed by the head of United Russia\u00a0political party. Alexander Mikhelson has introduced legislation on creating and spreading false information via the internet following online rumours that governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyeve, was found dead. Elsewhere in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>, businessman and former millionaire Alexey Kozlov was\u00a0<a title=\"Global voices - Unjustly convicted businessman blogger released from prison\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/09\/20\/russia-imprisoned-businessman-blogger-released-from-jail\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">released from prison<\/a>. Kozlov was unjustly imprisoned in 2007 under trumped-up accusations, but his public popularity remained high due to his prison blog. Forbes.ru started its own version of the blog, covering other unjustly convicted businessmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill introducing\u00a0stricter responsibility for online libel has been proposed by the head of United Russia\u00a0political party. Alexander Mikhelson has introduced legislation on creating and spreading false information via the internet following online rumours that governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyeve, was found dead. Elsewhere in Russia, businessman and former millionaire Alexey Kozlov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[3830,3831,661,165,7349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27025"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27027,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27025\/revisions\/27027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}