{"id":202557,"date":"2011-05-17T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/?p=202557"},"modified":"2021-05-08T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:21:17","slug":"202557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/2011\/05\/17\/202557.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Amnesty International&#8221; has denounced the sentences on Sannikov, Khalip, Severnets and Martselev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The point at issue is the verdict on a candidate for the presidency in 2010, Andrei Sannikov, his wife the journalist Irina Khalip, Pavel Severinets (the campaign manager Vitalii Rymashevskii) and Sergei Martselev (the campaign manager Nikolai Statkevich) . The organization considers these people to be prisoners of conscience, &#8220;BelaPAN&#8221; writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andrei Sannikov and these other activists have been convicted solely for exercising their right to peaceful protest,&#8221; a representative of &#8220;Amnesty International&#8221;, John Dalhuisen, said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization recalls that Sannikov made a statement during the court proceedings about his ill-treatment whilst in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have been convicted &#8220;must be released immediately and unconditionally,&#8221; Dalhuisen stressed. &#8220;Their imprisonment is yet another example of the Belarusian government\u2019s relentless clampdown on any form of dissent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Amnesty International&#8221; has denounced the sentences passed on 14 and 16 May on those accused in a criminal case about the events of 19 December in Minsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}