{"id":30868,"date":"2022-02-10T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/?p=30868"},"modified":"2022-02-10T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T13:43:04","slug":"free-andrei-and-irina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/free-andrei-and-irina\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Andrei And Irina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"td_btn td_btn_lg td_outlined_btn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freeandreiandirina.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FreeAndreiAndIrina<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u041ene year since the detention of Andrei Aliaksandrau and Irina Zlobina, Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 are launching a campaign aimed at amplifying calls for their immediate and unconditional release. AEJ-Bulgaria joins the initiative. Andrei and Irina have been behind bars since 12 January 2021, when they were detained and imprisoned for their defence of fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist and human rights defender who previously worked at both Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19, Andrei is now facing charges of \u201ctreason to the state\u201d. The charges stem from allegations that he paid the fines of journalists and protestors detained during the pro-democracy protests that were triggered by the highly disputed 2020 presidential election. Belarusian law enforcement agencies erroneously equate this with financing unlawful protests. If convicted, Andrei will face up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to you, and other good people, my conscience is clear,\u201d he wrote\u00a0to a friend last year.<\/p>\n<p>His partner, Irina was also detained \u201con suspicion of financing protest activities\u201d and has since been charged with \u201corganization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order\u201d. She is facing up to three years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invited journalists, human rights defenders, press freedom activists and friends of Andrei and Irina to record short video messages for the campaign. Those videos will be shared on social media in the coming days,\u201d ARTICLE 19 and Index on Censorship said. \u201cAs Andrei\u2019s former colleagues, we want as many people as possible to know how incredibly kind and generous he and Irina are, and to understand the unfathomable injustice they are both facing at the hands of the Belarusian authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>We urge you to help us call for their immediate and unconditional release by joining our campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign\u00a0the petition\u00a0to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Andrei and Irina.<\/li>\n<li>Share ARTICLE 19 and Index on Censorship\u2019s campaign posts on social media.<\/li>\n<li>Use the hashtags #FreeAndrei, #FreeIrina, #FreeAndreiAndIrina to post messages of support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"td_btn td_btn_lg td_outlined_btn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freeandreiandirina.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FreeAndreiAndIrina<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u041ene year since the detention of Andrei Aliaksandrau and Irina Zlobina, Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 are launching a campaign aimed at amplifying calls for their immediate and unconditional release. AEJ-Bulgaria joins the initiative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-positions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}