{"id":33039,"date":"2012-02-16T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33039"},"modified":"2012-02-16T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:52:25","slug":"ecuador-correa-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33039","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Pro-Correa libel verdict upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuador\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuador<\/a>&#8216;s highest court has <a title=\"AP - Ecuador court upholds pro-Correa libel verdict \" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5htUL5ORoMzST2Df2ArWeVWYYRf0A?docId=0db6e7dfee4d4a449775942dacc86aaa\" target=\"_blank\">upheld<\/a>\u00a0a criminal libel verdict favouring President <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Rafael Correa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/rafael-correa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Correa<\/a>, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist each to three years in prison ordering them to pay a total of around 26 million GBP in damages. The case was brought by Correa against opposition paper El Universo, which published a column that referred to the president as\u00a0&#8220;the Dictator&#8221;, claiming he &#8220;ordered discretionary fire &#8212; without prior notification &#8212; against a hospital full of civilians and innocent people&#8221; during a September 2010 police revolt over government plans to cut police benefits that claimed at least five lives. The verdict is not subject to appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador&#8216;s highest court has upheld\u00a0a criminal libel verdict favouring President Rafael Correa, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist each to three years in prison ordering them to pay a total of around 26 million GBP in damages. The case was brought by Correa against opposition paper El Universo, which published a column that referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[744,584,585],"tags":[7423,3717,165,727,2457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33039"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33049,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33039\/revisions\/33049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}