{"id":31850,"date":"2012-01-10T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31850"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:48:26","slug":"belarus-reporter-jailed-for-covering-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31850","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: Reporter jailed for covering protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A freelance reporter was <a title=\"CPJ : Independent reporter jailed in Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2012\/01\/independent-reporter-jailed-in-belarus.php\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> to 11 days in prison following his coverage of an unsanctioned protest in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Belarus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Belarus\" target=\"_blank\">Belarus<\/a>.\u00a0Aleksandr Borozenko, who was working for Poland-based satellite broadcaster Belsat at the time,\u00a0was <a title=\"RFE : Belarusian Activist, Journalist Jailed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/belarus_activist_rally_sentenced\/24446717.html\" target=\"_blank\">detained<\/a> on 8 January, along with human rights activist\u00a0Nikolai Kovalenko. Borozenko was reporting on a\u00a0one-person vigil which was being staged by Kovalenko. The journalist was arrested by KGB security forces minutes after he began filming the activist&#8217;s protest, which took place\u00a0in front of the KGB headquarters in Minsk. Borozenko reportedly began a hunger strike after hearing the verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A freelance reporter was sentenced to 11 days in prison following his coverage of an unsanctioned protest in Belarus.\u00a0Aleksandr Borozenko, who was working for Poland-based satellite broadcaster Belsat at the time,\u00a0was detained on 8 January, along with human rights activist\u00a0Nikolai Kovalenko. Borozenko was reporting on a\u00a0one-person vigil which was being staged by Kovalenko. The journalist [&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":[4059,584,585],"tags":[4172,7379,4174,4173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850"}],"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=31850"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31853,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850\/revisions\/31853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}