{"id":2703,"date":"2009-11-02T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2009-11-02T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:57:15","slug":"hossein-derakhshans-brother-hamed-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/hossein-derakhshans-brother-hamed-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossein Derakhshan’s brother, Hamed, speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’ve been covering this issue on my blog<\/a> and also for three media outlets: PRI’s The World<\/a>, in a piece that aired on Wednesday, TVO’s Search Engine<\/a> (in an episode airing tomorrow), and for PBS’ MediaShift<\/a> in a piece that will be airing later this week. <\/p>\n

The CBC also came out with a piece<\/a> late Thursday night that I’ve just now seen.<\/p>\n

I have also been in regular contact with Hossein Derakhshan’s brother, Hamed Derakhshan, who just told me the following via Skype chat:<\/p>\n

– His parents recently had a meeting with the new district attorney, who allowed them to have dinner in Evin Prison<\/a> with their son, Hossein Derakhshan, on Thursday, October 29, 2009. <\/p>\n

– This confirms that Hossein is being held in Evin Prison, however the family does not know the next time they will be allowed to see him. <\/p>\n

– At the dinner, Hossein confirmed the recent<\/a> Human Rights Activists in Iran reports<\/a> that claim he had been forced to do squats in cold showers and has been beaten repeatedly. <\/p>\n

– Hossein is now sorry that he asked for a media blackout.<\/p>\n

“Yes, he told my family that he regrets telling us not to cover his story if he was arrested,” Hamed Derakhshan wrote. “He said he should have asked us to create a media campaign after two months if he was still arrested.”<\/p>\n

– Hamed believes that his and his father’s speaking out has had a direct impact on the Iranian government’s behavior.<\/p>\n

I will continue to follow this story as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan. I’ve been covering this issue on my blog and also for three media outlets: PRI’s The World, in a piece that aired on Wednesday, TVO’s Search Engine (in an episode airing tomorrow), and for PBS’ MediaShift in a piece that will be airing later this week. The CBC also came out with a piece late Thursday night that I’ve just now seen. I have also been in regular…<\/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":[23,31,84,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-blogs","category-canada","category-hossein-derakhshan","category-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-HB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}