{"id":27366,"date":"2011-09-28T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27366"},"modified":"2013-07-15T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T16:58:55","slug":"belarus-top-journalist-barred-from-leaving-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27366","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Top journalist &#8216;barred from leaving Belarus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist who was found guilty of defamation in<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tags\/belarus\" target=\"_blank\"> Belarus<\/a> has been<a title=\"RFE - Journalist barred from leaving belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/gazeta_wyborcza_journalist_barred_from_leaving_belarus\/24341764.html\" target=\"_blank\"> barred from leaving<\/a> the country.\u00a0Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist who writes for top daily newspaper <a title=\"Gazeta Wyborcza\" href=\"http:\/\/wyborcza.pl\/0,0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gazeta Wyborcza<\/a>, was found guilty of <a title=\"Index on Censorship - JOURNALIST CONVICTED OF DEFAMING LUKASHENKA LOSES APPEAL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/09\/belarus-journalist-convicted-of-defaming-lukashenka-loses-appeal\/\" target=\"_blank\">defaming President<\/a>\u00a0Alexander Lukashenko\u00a0in July, and was given a three-year suspended sentence. Poczobut claims he was recently summoned to a police station in \u00a0Homel, where he was instructed that as a convict he has no right to travel abroad. Poczobut wrote in <a title=\"Poczobut - Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/poczobut.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his blog<\/a> regarding the travel ban: &#8220;That is not mentioned either in my verdict or in the Criminal Code.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist who was found guilty of defamation in Belarus has been barred from leaving the country.\u00a0Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist who writes for top daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was found guilty of defaming President\u00a0Alexander Lukashenko\u00a0in July, and was given a three-year suspended sentence. Poczobut claims he was recently summoned to a police station in [&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":[3072,3856,7379,241,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366"}],"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=27366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27391,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366\/revisions\/27391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}