{"id":38,"date":"2005-02-22T23:57:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T21:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-11-14T01:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:58:02","slug":"iranian-blogger-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Blogger Sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arash Sigarchi, 28, was earlier today sentenced to 14 years of prison, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/arash-sentenced-to-14-years.html\">The Committee to Protect Bloggers<\/a>. His crime? Well, apparently he updated a blog with information about more than 20 Internet journalists who had been jailed by the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4278241.stm\">quotes<\/a> a spokesperson for Amnesty International commented: &#8220;Just as the internet is a tool for freedom, so it is being used as an excuse for repression. [&#8230;] It is also shocking to realise that in the communications age just expressing support for an internet activist is enough to land people in jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My question: Where does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/16\/international\/middleeast\/16iran.html?ex=1263531600&amp;en=7ca5a40ddda25256&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt\">this<\/a> fit in? Propaganda?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arash Sigarchi, 28, was earlier today sentenced to 14 years of prison, according to The Committee to Protect Bloggers. His crime? Well, apparently he updated a blog with information about more than 20 Internet journalists who had been jailed by the Iranian government. BBC quotes a spokesperson for Amnesty International commented: &#8220;Just as the internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-free-speech","category-iran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}