{"id":48597,"date":"2013-07-02T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=48597"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:39:36","slug":"rapper-weld-el-15-walks-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=48597","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Weld El 15 walks free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sayeb15.jpg\" alt=\"sayeb15\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sayeb15.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sayeb15-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sayeb15-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sayeb15-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><strong>Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 (real name Alaa Yaacoubi) walked free from Tunis&#8217;s Court of Appeal today after his jail sentence for &#8220;insulting&#8221; police was reduced from two years to a six month suspended sentence, Padraig Reidy writes<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to AFP, the rapper&#8217;s lawyer Ghazi Mrabet hailed the court decision as &#8220;a victory for liberty, for democracy, and for Weld el 15, who did nothing but create a work of art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weld el 15 was sentenced in March after his song &#8220;Boulicia Kleb&#8221; (The Police Are Dogs) was posted on YouTube. In the song, the rapper says he dreams that \u201che would like to slaughter a police officer instead of sheep at Eid al-Adha\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6owW_Jv5ng4?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6owW_Jv5ng4?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A social media campaign using the hashtag #sayeb15 rallied support for the rapper. In June, a group of Francophone hip hop artists signed an article in French newspaper Lib\u00e9ration calling for his release.<\/p>\n<p>Index on Censorship also joined in sending messages of support to Weld el 15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/1011415_280443395433759_1403523108_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 (real name Alaa Yaacoubi) walked free from Tunis&#8217;s Court of Appeal today after his jail sentence for &#8220;insulting&#8221; police was reduced from two years to a six month suspended sentence, <strong>Padraig Reidy<\/strong> writes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49023,"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":[4060,581],"tags":[986,1895,7352,5619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48597"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48597"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84163,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48597\/revisions\/84163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}