{"id":45658,"date":"2021-02-19T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c44f7202c6b39fa02c13e815c4cc6004"},"modified":"2021-02-19T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:19:53","slug":"two-year-jail-terms-signal-bid-to-crush-all-independent-journalism-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/19\/two-year-jail-terms-signal-bid-to-crush-all-independent-journalism-in-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year jail terms signal bid to crush all independent journalism in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the two-year jail terms that two Belarusian journalists received yesterday on a trumped-up charge of organizing a protest they simply filmed. Passed at the end of a sham trial, these sentences constitute a disturbing escalation in the crackdown on independent journalism in Belarus, RSF said.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>During the past six months of protests and repression in Belarus, around 100 \u201cadministrative\u201d prison sentences of never more than a month in duration have been passed on media personnel.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/two-year-jail-terms-signal-bid-crush-all-independent-journalism-belarus\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the two-year jail terms that two Belarusian journalists received yesterday on a trumped-up charge of organizing a protest they simply filmed. Passed at the end of a sham trial, these sentences constitu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45658"}],"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\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45659,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45658\/revisions\/45659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}