{"id":987,"date":"2008-11-25T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/987\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T19:29:55","slug":"hossein-derakhshan-arrested-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/987\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossein Derakhshan arrested in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoder.com\/weblog\/\">Hossein<\/a> (link goes to his English blog) is known as the father of the Persian blogosphere. I <a href=\"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/first\/2004_06_01_archive.html#108724751629730191\">met him a couple of years ago<\/a> (old link takes a while to load), not too difficult since he also lived in Toronto. Anyhow he&#8217;s been arrested in Iran on obviously fake charges. Considering that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zahra_Kazemi\">Canadian journalist was beaten to death after her arrest<\/a> in Iran a couple of years ago, this is not exactly good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=37459792838\">Free Hossein Derakhshan \/\/ Lib\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9rez Hossein Derakhshan<\/a> is a Facebook group that seems to be acting as an early petitiony-type thing. I wonder if the Canadian government can be persuaded to actually do <em>anything<\/em> about this at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hossein (link goes to his English blog) is known as the father of the Persian blogosphere. I met him a couple of years ago (old link takes a while to load), not too difficult since he also lived in Toronto. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/987\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[608,607,606,604,605],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-freedomofthepress","tag-hoder","tag-hosseinderakhshan","tag-iran","tag-persian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}