{"id":9897,"date":"2021-01-18T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118254\/belarus-stripped-ice-hockey-world-championship-after-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:43:42","slug":"belarus-stripped-of-ice-hockey-world-championship-after-crackdown-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/belarus-stripped-of-ice-hockey-world-championship-after-crackdown-on-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus stripped of ice hockey world championship after crackdown on protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"Belarus has been stripped of the right to co-host this year\u2019s ice hockey world championship due to safety concerns over political unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic there, the sport\u2019s governing body said on Monday, in a blow to President Alexander Lukashenko.The move deprives Lukashenko, an avid hockey fan, of a stage to host the biggest international event planned in the country since he claimed victory last August in a vote the opposition said was rigged and marred with violations.Belarusian\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118254\/belarus-stripped-ice-hockey-world-championship-after-crackdown\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus has been stripped of the right to co-host this year\u2019s ice hockey world championship due to safety concerns over political unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic there, the sport\u2019s governing body said on Monday, in a blow to President Alexander Lukash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"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\/9897"}],"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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}