{"id":32662,"date":"2012-02-03T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32662"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:31:58","slug":"iran-press-crackdown-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32662","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Press crackdown continues as elections approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iranian<\/a> journalists were\u00a0<a title=\"CPJ - Ahead of Iran elections, crackdown on press continues \" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2012\/02\/ahead-of-iran-elections-crackdown-on-press-continu.php\" target=\"_blank\">arrested in January<\/a> as the government continued its <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Iran: New crackdown on journalists in run-up to elections\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/01\/20\/iran-new-crackdown-on-journalists-in-run-up-to-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">crackdown on dissent<\/a> ahead of March&#8217;s parliamentary elections. Recent reports identified three previously undisclosed arrests.\u00a0Critical blogger Mehdi Khazali was arrested by security forces in Tehran on 9 January and charged with &#8220;insulting the supreme leader.&#8221; Authorities arrested Paris-based journalist Saeed Razavi Faghih on 17 January as he arrived at a Tehran airport; and on the same day security forces in Tabriz arrested Payman Pakmehr, founder of Tabriz news website, which covers the arrests of local activists, and charged him with &#8220;propagating against the regime.&#8221; Seven other journalists were also arrested last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten\u00a0Iranian journalists were\u00a0arrested in January as the government continued its crackdown on dissent ahead of March&#8217;s parliamentary elections. Recent reports identified three previously undisclosed arrests.\u00a0Critical blogger Mehdi Khazali was arrested by security forces in Tehran on 9 January and charged with &#8220;insulting the supreme leader.&#8221; Authorities arrested Paris-based journalist Saeed Razavi Faghih on 17 January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[7359,4259,727,4260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32662"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32691,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662\/revisions\/32691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}