{"id":27726,"date":"2011-10-11T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27726"},"modified":"2011-10-11T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T12:59:08","slug":"tunisia-broadcast-of-persepolis-prompts-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27726","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Broadcast of &#8216;Persepolis&#8217; prompts protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Irish Times - Broadcast of 'Persepolis' prompts protest in Tunis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2011\/1011\/1224305576647.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds of protesters<\/a> have attacked a private television company in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Tunisia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Tunisia\" target=\"_blank\">Tunisia<\/a> in protest over the broadcast of the award winning film &#8220;<a title=\"IMDB - Persepolis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0808417\/\" target=\"_blank\">Persepolis<\/a>.&#8221; The protesters, who believe that the animated film\u00a0denigrates Islam, attacked the TV station Nessma in Tunisia&#8217;s capital on Sunday. Police used <a title=\"Reuters India - Tunisia police use teargas on Islamist protesters\" href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/10\/idINIndia-59794120111010\" target=\"_blank\">tear gas<\/a> to disperse the crowd and made 40 arrests. The film, which is about the 1979 Iranian revolution, was aired on Friday. Following the broadcast, <a title=\"Sydney Morning Herald - Tunisian police thwart TV station attack\" href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/tunisian-police-thwart-tv-station-attack-20111010-1lg94.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> Nebil Karoui, the head of Nessma,\u00a0messages appeared on Facebook calling for the station to be burned down and its journalists killed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have attacked a private television company in Tunisia in protest over the broadcast of the award winning film &#8220;Persepolis.&#8221; The protesters, who believe that the animated film\u00a0denigrates Islam, attacked the TV station Nessma in Tunisia&#8217;s capital on Sunday. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and made 40 arrests. The film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[103,3889,3120,212,7352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27726"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27735,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27726\/revisions\/27735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}