{"id":1841,"date":"2008-12-09T04:43:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2008-12-09T04:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T12:43:06","slug":"hossein-derakhshan-was-really-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/hossein-derakhshan-was-really-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossein Derakhshan was really arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanam Dolatshahi<\/a>, an Iranian blogger now living in Florida, says that the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan<\/a> has been confirmed by his family in Tehran. The arrest has also been confirmed by a friend of the family’s, as quoted in today’sThe Globe & Mail<\/a><\/i>. To be clear, I myself, have not spoken with anyone in Hoder’s family yet.<\/p>\n

Sanam writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My friend Nazli finally got the OK from Hossein Derakhshan\u2019s sister, Azadeh Derakhshan, to publicly announce that Hossein Derakhshan, one of the first Iranian bloggers, was arrested on the afternoon of November 1, in Tehran.<\/p>\n

I am quoting this news from Nazli Kamvari, a friend of Hossein Derakhshan and an Iranian blogger living in Toronto, who has been directly in touch with Hossein\u2019s sister and just wrote about this news in her Persian blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My understanding is that Hossein\u2019s family has been under pressure from the authorities not to talk about Hossein\u2019s arrest and not to get a lawyer for him. So, it is understandable that they are not talking to the media. But we at least can assure both the Persian and global blogosphere, who were previously in doubts about Hossein\u2019s arrest, that he\u2019s really arrested.<\/p>\n

Hossein has gone through various changes in his politics and he has rubbed many activists the wrong way, including myself. (I personally don\u2019t approve his politics and we have had couple of fierce arguments and fights in the past few months.) However, we should not have double standards when we deal with human rights. Any human being should be entitled to freedom of expression and should have access to an attorney while in jail. I hope human rights advocates start campaigning for Hossein Derakhshan.<\/p>\n

Update: I personally talked to his sister, too. She is very worried about Hossein. We should be careful with the way we spread the news not to have a negative effect. Absolutley no neocon propaganda shit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanam Dolatshahi, an Iranian blogger now living in Florida, says that the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan has been confirmed by his family in Tehran. The arrest has also been confirmed by a friend of the family’s, as quoted in today’sThe Globe & Mail. To be clear, I myself, have not spoken with anyone in Hoder’s family yet. Sanam writes: My friend Nazli finally got the OK from Hossein Derakhshan\u2019s sister, Azadeh Derakhshan, to publicly announce that Hossein Derakhshan, one of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,84,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-blogs","category-hossein-derakhshan","category-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-tH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}