{"id":27096,"date":"2011-09-21T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27096"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:34:08","slug":"ecuador-court-upholds-libel-verdict-against-news-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27096","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: court upholds libel verdict against news executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An appeals court in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuador\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuador<\/a> has <a title=\"Washington Post - Ecuador court upholds libel verdict against news executives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/americas\/ecuador-court-upholds-criminal-libel-verdict-against-news-executives-president-applauds\/2011\/09\/20\/gIQARyqZiK_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">upheld libel convictions <\/a>and prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former writer. El Universo newspaper published a column by <a title=\"El universo - No to the lies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eluniverso.com\/2011\/02\/06\/1\/1363\/mentiras.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emilio Palacio<\/a>\u00a0that called\u00a0President Rafael Correa a dictator. Fines of $42 million were also upheld by the judges against the executives of the newspaper. \u00a0President Correa attended Tuesday\u2019s court hearing and said that the ruling meant Ecuador has begun to free itself of a corrupt press. The defendants are free pending appeal. The Committee to Protect Journalists have called the decision a <a title=\"CPJ - Ecuadoran appeals court upholds libel conviction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/09\/ecuadoran-appeals-court-upholds-libel-conviction.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;blow to freedom of expression.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appeals court in Ecuador has upheld libel convictions and prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former writer. El Universo newspaper published a column by Emilio Palacio\u00a0that called\u00a0President Rafael Correa a dictator. Fines of $42 million were also upheld by the judges against the executives of the newspaper. \u00a0President Correa attended Tuesday\u2019s court [&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":[241,7423,165,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27096"}],"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=27096"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84687,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27096\/revisions\/84687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}