{"id":23499,"date":"2011-06-09T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23499"},"modified":"2011-06-09T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:33:47","slug":"iranian-blogger-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23499","title":{"rendered":"Iranian blogger sentenced to 20 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sakhi Rigi was <a title=\"Global Voices Online: Iran---Record Breaking 20-Year Jail Sentence for Blogger\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/06\/09\/iran-record-breaking-20-year-jail-sentence-for-blogger\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> to 20 years in prison today for critiquing the 2009 Iranian presidential elections on his blog. He was arrested in 18 June 2009 and has received the longest sentence given to an Iranian blogger. Yesterday (8 June)\u00a0Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan\u00a0<a title=\"AFP: Iranian 'blogfather' loses appeal against 19-year jail term\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ia2uQKx_qoMQYGAopxBkMIUj2MBw?docId=CNG.161978ad878421d320b7331d7af803d4.5a1\" target=\"_blank\">lost his appeal<\/a> against a 19-year prison sentence. Known as the &#8220;<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Hossein Derakhshan may face death penalty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2010\/09\/hossein-derakhshan-may-face-death-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogfather<\/a>,&#8221; Derakhshan championed the internet as a means of social reform. He has been in prison since his arrest in 2008 for making disparaging remarks about important Shiite leaders. Both Derakhshan and Rigi were convicted of &#8220;aiding enemy states and propaganda against the Islamic system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakhi Rigi was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for critiquing the 2009 Iranian presidential elections on his blog. He was arrested in 18 June 2009 and has received the longest sentence given to an Iranian blogger. Yesterday (8 June)\u00a0Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan\u00a0lost his appeal against a 19-year prison sentence. Known as the &#8220;blogfather,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[515,7359,727,3476,3478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23556,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions\/23556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}