{"id":27886,"date":"2011-10-14T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:50:10","slug":"colombia-editor-given-suspended-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27886","title":{"rendered":"Colombia: Editor given suspended prison term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of a <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Columbia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\">Colombian<\/a> monthly newspaper has been handed a 20-month <a title=\"CPJ - Columbian editor handed suspended sentence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/10\/colombian-journalist-handed-suspended-prison-term.php\" target=\"_blank\">suspended sentenc<\/a>e and a $5,500 fine.\u00a0Luis Agust\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez, who is both founder and editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cundinamarcademocratica.es.tl\/\">Cundinamarca Democr\u00e1tica<\/a>, was convicted of criminal libel yesterday, after he published\u00a0<a title=\"Semana - No Mas! [Spanish]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.semana.com\/documents\/Doc-2259_20111013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> critical of \u00a0local politician. In a 2008 article,\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez expressed his dismay that Maria Leonor Serrano had announced she would be a senate candidate in the 2010 elections. The article also referred to allegations of corruption throughout her career, and covered a range of disappearances and\u00a0assassinations\u00a0which occurred during her tenure as a town mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of a Colombian monthly newspaper has been handed a 20-month suspended sentence and a $5,500 fine.\u00a0Luis Agust\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez, who is both founder and editor of\u00a0Cundinamarca Democr\u00e1tica, was convicted of criminal libel yesterday, after he published\u00a0an article critical of \u00a0local politician. In a 2008 article,\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez expressed his dismay that Maria Leonor Serrano had announced [&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":[91,1705,165,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886"}],"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=27886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27902,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions\/27902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}