{"id":33121,"date":"2012-02-21T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33121"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:37:23","slug":"panama-ecuador-asylum-el-universo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33121","title":{"rendered":"Panama: Ecuadoran newspaper publisher offered asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panamanian\u00a0president Ricardo Martinelli <a title=\"Knight Center - Panama offers asylum to Ecuadoran newspaper owner facing prison, fines in libel sentence that has prompted global outrage  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/00-9076-panama-offers-asylum-ecuadoran-newspaper-owner-facing-prison-fines-libel-sentence-has-p\" target=\"_blank\">offered asylum<\/a> to Ecuadoran publisher Carlos P\u00e9rez Barriga, one of the owners of the El Universo newspaper. Last week\u00a0P\u00e9rez was\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuador: Pro-Correa libel verdict upheld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/02\/ecuador-correa-libel\/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> to three years in prison and 26m GBP in fines for defaming Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa.\u00a0Emilio Palacio, the journalist who penned the editorial that provoked Correa&#8217;s libel complaint, has sought asylum in the US.\u00a0P\u00e9rez&#8217;s brothers &#8212; who are co-owners &#8212; are also currently in the United States and reportedly\u00a0fear returning to\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuador\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuador<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panamanian\u00a0president Ricardo Martinelli offered asylum to Ecuadoran publisher Carlos P\u00e9rez Barriga, one of the owners of the El Universo newspaper. Last week\u00a0P\u00e9rez was\u00a0sentenced to three years in prison and 26m GBP in fines for defaming Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa.\u00a0Emilio Palacio, the journalist who penned the editorial that provoked Correa&#8217;s libel complaint, has sought asylum in [&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":[241,7423,3717,3687,165,3133,727,2457,4334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33121"}],"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=33121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84698,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33121\/revisions\/84698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}