{"id":691907,"date":"2010-03-15T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=128584"},"modified":"2010-03-15T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:09:11","slug":"latvia-all-march-16-rallies-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/691907","title":{"rendered":"Latvia: All March 16 Rallies Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist&#39;s Edward Lucas <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlucas.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/latvia-and-history-europe-view-175.html\">writes<\/a> that &#8220;for once, the anniversary of a wartime battle in Latvia should pass off peacefully&#8221; on March 16. Juris Ka\u017ea of <em>Free Speech Emergency in Latvia<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/riga-city-council-restricts-everyones.html\">reports on the ban<\/a> on &#8220;all marches and gatherings at the Freedom Monument on March 16, the day that the Latvian Legion, formed under German occupation in 1943, is commemorated.&#8221; In a comment posted on Lucas&#39; blog, Ka\u017ea <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlucas.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/latvia-and-history-europe-view-175.html?showComment=1268430315682#c8074397723299950979\">adds<\/a>: &#8220;But there is a big row building. The supporters of the Legionnaires are angry about the ban [&#8230;], the nationalists of varying intensity are angry, the &#8216;anti-fascists&#39; are not pleased (they, too, are banned) and supporters of the freedom of speech and assembly, such as myself are angry, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist&#39;s Edward Lucas writes that &#8220;for once, the anniversary of a wartime battle in Latvia should pass off peacefully&#8221; on March 16. Juris Ka\u017ea of Free Speech Emergency in Latvia reports on the ban on &#8220;all marches and gatherings at the Freedom Monument on March 16, the day that the Latvian Legion, formed under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TZN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}