{"id":159472,"date":"2012-02-07T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=159472"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:34:21","slug":"iranian-blogger-mehdi-khazali-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-and-10-years-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/07\/iranian-blogger-mehdi-khazali-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-and-10-years-in-exile.html","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Blogger Mehdi Khazali Sentenced to 14 Years In Prison and 10 Years in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian blogger Mehdi Khazali has been sentenced to 13 years and 10 months in prison and 10 years in exile, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/iran_blogger_mahdi_khazali_sentenced_to_14_years_in_prison\/24475949.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RFE\/RL reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In his blog, Khazali has criticized Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Iran&#8217;s state policies.<\/p>\n<p>Khazali\u2019s lawyer told RFE\/RL&#8217;s\u00a0Radio Farda that he will appeal against the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Khazali was arrested about a month ago and is currently on a hunger strike.\u00a0The outspoken blogger and ophthalmologist has been detained a number of times in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Iranian authorities have arrested several people over alleged links to the BBC&#8217;s Persian service, Iran&#8217;s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on February 6.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting an unnamed \u201cinformed source,\u201d Mehr said the detainees produced content and reported to the BBC.\u00a0It is not clear how many people have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In London, the BBC said in a statement it has &#8220;no BBC Persian staff members or stringers working inside Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said the report &#8220;should be of deep concern to all those who believe in a free and independent media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October, Iran released two filmmakers who were jailed on similar charges. Last week, the BBC accused Iran of pressuring the staff members of its Persian service by targeting their relatives in Iran.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian blogger Mehdi Khazali has been sentenced to 13 years and 10 months in prison and 10 years in exile for criticizing Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37841,16333,37840,10297,37839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}