{"id":1427555,"date":"2024-01-04T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/04\/belarusian-president-alexander-lukashenko-signs-law-granting-him-lifelong-immunity-from-prosecution"},"modified":"2024-01-04T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:32:02","slug":"belarusian-president-signs-law-granting-him-lifelong-immunity-from-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/04\/belarusian-president-signs-law-granting-him-lifelong-immunity-from-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian president signs law granting him lifelong immunity from prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s law also bars exiled opposition leaders from standing in presidential elections<\/p>

The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has signed a new law granting him lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution and preventing opposition leaders living in exile from running in future presidential elections.<\/p>

The law theoretically applies to any former president and members of his or her family. In reality, it is only relevant to the 69-year-old Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for almost 30 years.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s law also bars exiled opposition leaders from standing in presidential electionsThe Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has signed a new law granting him lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution and preventing oppositio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7270,78,471,6,640,33286,376,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427556,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427555\/revisions\/1427556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}