{"id":903,"date":"2016-04-27T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=903"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:49:20","slug":"lawyer-iran-to-free-artist-activist-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer: Iran to free artist, activist soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/a\/Atena%20Farghadani%20.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atena Farghadani<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">April 25, 2016 \u202b-\u202cFOX News-Dubai, United Arab Emirates \u2013 \u00a0The lawyer for a prominent jailed Iranian artist and activist say authorities will soon free his client. Mohammad Moghimi told The Associated Press Monday that an appeals court reduced Atena Farghadani&#8217;s 12-year prison sentence to 18 months and &#8220;she will be freed soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Moghimi said the exact date for her release has not been set yet.<br \/>\nIn June 2014, a court sentenced Farghadani, a cartoonist, over a cartoon that criticized a law limiting women&#8217;s access to birth control.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, Iran freed Nazak Afshar, an Iranian-French former employee of the France embassy in Tehran, after nearly two months in jail over her alleged role in 2009 post-election protests.<br \/>\nThe moves are seen as efforts to soften Iran&#8217;s image and improve relations with the West following the 2015 landmark nuclear agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, 2016 \u202b-\u202cFOX News-Dubai, United Arab Emirates \u2013 \u00a0The lawyer for a prominent jailed Iranian artist and activist say authorities will soon free his client. Mohammad Moghimi told The<\/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":[209],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-atena-farghadani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}