{"id":66688,"date":"2011-02-15T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T11:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=66688"},"modified":"2011-02-15T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T11:34:05","slug":"berlusconi-ordered-to-stand-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/15\/berlusconi-ordered-to-stand-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Berlusconi Ordered to Stand Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silvio Berlusconi, the\u00a0Italian prime minister, has been ordered to stand trial\u00a0on charges he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl and then used his political position to try and cover it\u00a0up, reports Al Jazeera English.<br \/>\nCristina Di Censo, a Milan judge,\u00a0handed down the indictment on Tuesday. The trial is set to begin on \u00a0April 6.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old billionaire has denied the charges against him, saying they are politically motivated. However his lawyers on Tuesday said they &#8220;didn&#8217;t expect anything else,&#8221; in response to the news.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors bringing the case against Berlusconi allege he paid for sex with a &#8220;significant number&#8221; of young women including\u00a0a Moroccan dancer nicknamed Ruby the Heart Stealer, who was 17 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The premier is also accused of\u00a0using his influence to free her from custody after being arrested on suspicion of an unrelated theft.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has been ordered to stand trial on charges he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl and then&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21888,21889,21788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}