{"id":9753,"date":"2010-09-04T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9753"},"modified":"2010-09-04T13:54:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:54:54","slug":"belarus-dissident-oleg-bebenin-found-hanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/belarus-dissident-oleg-bebenin-found-hanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: dissident, Oleg Bebenin found hanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-11189609\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officials in Belarus say a prominent opposition figure found hanged at his weekend home outside the capital, Minsk, on Friday committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic examiners established that, apart from the noose mark on Oleg Bebenin&#8217;s neck, there were no other injuries, a local prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bebenin, 36, founded Charter 97, a leading opposition website critical of President Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n<p>Colleagues said they could not believe the father-of-two had killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>They pointed out that he had left no note and Charter 97&#8217;s editor, Natalia Radina, said he had not been having any family or health problems.<\/p>\n<p>He had, she told independent Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy, been absorbed in his work and campaigning for opposition presidential hopeful Andrei Sannikov.<\/p>\n<p>Most independent media in Belarus have closed down and the authorities barely tolerate political dissent, correspondents say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was in Belarus a month ago. Our local guide noted that, unlike Russia, the KGB were still operating; consequently, there was no graffiti, no homeless people sleeping on the street, almost no crime. And political dissidents tend to get themselves hanged \u2013 somehow.<\/p>\n<p>A rather high price to pay for an antiseptically clean capital city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MG_6082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9754\" title=\"_MG_6082\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MG_6082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Officials in Belarus say a prominent opposition figure found hanged at his weekend home outside the capital, Minsk, on Friday committed suicide. Forensic examiners established that, apart from the noose mark on Oleg Bebenin&#8217;s neck, there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/belarus-dissident-oleg-bebenin-found-hanged\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[475,2133,1093],"class_list":["post-9753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-travels","tag-belarus","tag-europe-travels","tag-minsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}