{"id":5670,"date":"2021-02-17T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:50:52","slug":"pen-america-asudzhae-miliczejskiya-napady-na-belaruskih-aktyvistau-zhurnalistau-i-pravaabaronczau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2021\/02\/17\/pen-america-asudzhae-miliczejskiya-napady-na-belaruskih-aktyvistau-zhurnalistau-i-pravaabaronczau.html","title":{"rendered":"PEN America condemns belarusian police raids on activists, journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>PEN America condemns these unjust attacks on journalists and activists, and calls on the Belarusian government to cease its unrelenting assault on the rights of its people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThese searches and detentions are a shocking escalation of the Belarusian government\u2019s ongoing crackdown on human rights, and indicate the authorities\u2019 utter disregard for press freedom and freedom of expression and association,\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/user\/polina-sadovskaya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noindex noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Polina Sadovskaya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PEN America\u2019s Eurasia program director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJournalists and human rights activists are being targeted for doing their jobs, and the government is making it quite obvious it views those jobs as a threat. The international community must continue to focus on the abuses taking place in Belarus, and to support those who are taking great risks to document and share information about the government\u2019s persistent attacks on human rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Members of Congress <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/members-of-congress-speak-out-belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noindex noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joined PEN America recently<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> marking a day of solidarity with the Belarusian people; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/open-letter-in-solidarity-people-of-belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noindex noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign PEN America\u2019s statement of support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the people of Belarus, defending their right to free expression<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEN America condemns these unjust attacks on journalists and activists, and calls on the Belarusian government to cease its unrelenting assault on the rights of its people. \u201cThese searches and detentions are a shocking escalation of the Belarusian government\u2019s ongoing crackdown on human rights, and indicate the authorities\u2019 utter disregard for press freedom and freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4201,4093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-solidarity","category-creative-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}