{"id":1163,"date":"2017-11-02T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2017-11-02T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:30:08","slug":"speak-out-against-irans-criminalization-of-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Speak Out Against Iran&#8217;s Criminalization of Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zEuiUAEKZ3g\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>November 2, 2017 \u2014 The\u00a0Center for Human Rights in Iran\u00a0(CHRI) today released a video about the criminal investigation by Iran\u2019s judiciary of 152 current and former staff members of BBC Persian. The defendants, all Iranian nationals based outside the country, recently discovered that the Iranian judiciary froze their assets in the state\u2019s ongoing campaign aimed at intimidating Farsi-speaking journalists into stopping their reporting on Iran or producing pro-state reporting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC has called on Iran to end its \u201cunprecedented collective punishment of journalists who are simply doing their jobs\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=58654548&amp;msgid=949521&amp;act=1FNF&amp;c=333585&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranhumanrights.org%2F2017%2F10%2Firan-launches-new-assault-on-freedom-of-expression-with-mass-criminal-investigation-of-bbc-persian-staff%2F\">urged<\/a>\u00a0the UN to hold the Islamic Republic in violation of international law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is setting a dangerous precedent by attempting to silence the voices of potential critics based abroad by creating a criminal record for them in absentia,\u201d said CHRI\u2019s Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=58654548&amp;msgid=949521&amp;act=1FNF&amp;c=333585&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranhumanrights.org%2F2017%2F10%2Firan-launches-new-assault-on-freedom-of-expression-with-mass-criminal-investigation-of-bbc-persian-staff%2F\">statement<\/a>\u00a0published on October 25, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf European and other countries with business leverage over Iran don\u2019t speak out now, they will be leaving the door open for hardline state actors to execute aggressive policies against freedom of speech of all Iranian nationals in democratic countries where such rights are guaranteed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>CHRI implores all advocates and defenders of freedom of expression and speech to speak out against Iran\u2019s ongoing attempts to criminalize journalism inside and outside the country. Join us in presenting a united front against Iran\u2019s attempts to criminalize journalism inside and outside its borders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=58654548&amp;msgid=949521&amp;act=1FNF&amp;c=333585&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fbuff.ly%2F2zrOd7V\">https:\/\/buff.ly\/2zrOd7V<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Twitter:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=58654548&amp;msgid=949521&amp;act=1FNF&amp;c=333585&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FICHRI%2Fstatus%2F925847580516417536\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICHRI\/status\/925847580516417536<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Youtube:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=58654548&amp;msgid=949521&amp;act=1FNF&amp;c=333585&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzEuiUAEKZ3g%26feature%3Dyoutu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zEuiUAEKZ3g&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For interviews, contact:<br \/>\nHadi Ghaemi<br \/>\n+1-917-669-5996<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:hadighaemi@iranhumanrights.org\">hadighaemi@iranhumanrights.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit our website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=58654548&amp;msgid=949521&amp;act=1FNF&amp;c=333585&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranhumanrights.org\">www.iranhumanrights.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2, 2017 \u2014 The\u00a0Center for Human Rights in Iran\u00a0(CHRI) today released a video about the criminal investigation by Iran\u2019s judiciary of 152 current and former staff members of BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}