{"id":911,"date":"2005-11-14T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/uzbekistan-update\/"},"modified":"2005-11-14T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T19:28:00","slug":"uzbekistan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/uzbekistan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/4435054.stm\">Utterly predictable<\/a> &#8211; I mean, OBVIOUSLY it&#8217;s the 15 people rounded up for a show trial who are guilty here, not the government forces who massacred hundreds of peaceful protestors&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the judge&#8230; repeated many of the details of the government&#8217;s version of what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UN commission on human rights has said in a statement that there have been serious inadequacies in the conduct of the trial, including inadequate definition of the crimes the 15 men were accused of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that the defendants all confessed their guilt on the first day raised concerns that the confessions might have been obtained by torture.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; Judges going along with what they&#8217;re told to by the government? Inadequate definitions of crimes? &#8220;Might have been obtained by torture&#8221;? Apart from the fact these poor bastards actually got some kind of trial, it could almost be Blair&#8217;s ideal Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utterly predictable &#8211; I mean, OBVIOUSLY it&#8217;s the 15 people rounded up for a show trial who are guilty here, not the government forces who massacred hundreds of peaceful protestors&#8230; &#8220;the judge&#8230; repeated many of the details of the government&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/uzbekistan-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}