{"id":26939,"date":"2011-09-19T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26939"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:57:50","slug":"iran-five-filmmakers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26939","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Five filmmakers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a title=\"Index: Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Iran\">Iranian<\/a> state media, five journalists allegedly working for BBC Persian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/five_iranian_bbc_reporters_arrested\/24332756.html\">were arrested<\/a> on 17 September for filming a documentary without permission from the foreign press department of the culture ministry. The arrests were confirmed by Minister Mohammad Hosseini. The BBC has meanwhile released a statement stating that the journalists in question do not work for BBC Persian, contrary to reports from Iranian authorities. In the past, Iranian officials have accused <a title=\"Index: BBC Persia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/BBCPersia\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Persia<\/a>, which is banned in Iran, of covering the nation negatively as well as inciting unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Iranian state media, five journalists allegedly working for BBC Persian\u00a0were arrested on 17 September for filming a documentary without permission from the foreign press department of the culture ministry. The arrests were confirmed by Minister Mohammad Hosseini. The BBC has meanwhile released a statement stating that the journalists in question do not work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[584,4060,585,581],"tags":[3823,7359,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26939"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79165,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939\/revisions\/79165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}