{"id":75085,"date":"2019-05-17T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=75085"},"modified":"2019-05-17T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:13:13","slug":"three-prominent-writers-in-iran-sentenced-to-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/05\/17\/three-prominent-writers-in-iran-sentenced-to-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Prominent Writers In Iran Sentenced To 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hdr-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-2 pull-left article-share\">\n<aside class=\"share flex-column js-share--apply-sticky js-share--expandable js-share--horizontal\" data-extended=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75090\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ArrestingWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ArrestingWEB.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ArrestingWEB-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ArrestingWEB-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ArrestingWEB-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ArrestingWEB-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; In a statement issued on Thursday, the Iran&#8217;s Writers Association (IWA), a civil society union, has protested the sentencing of three Iranian writers, who received a total of 18 years in prison IWA condemned the verdict as one &#8220;against all writers and everyone struggling for freedom of expression.&#8221; Iran\u2019s Judiciary on Wednesday sentenced Reza Khandan Mahabadi, Baktash Abtin, and Kayvan Bajan to a total of 18 years in jail, the writers&#8217; defense lawyers told the press. Two of the trio, Mahabadi and Abtin were indicted last August based on a complaint made by the Ministry of Intelligence in 2015. The ministry had accused the writers of &#8220;propagating against the regime, and publishing an illegal publication,&#8221; referring to the union&#8217;s internal pamphlet.<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The Iranian Writers Association in the statement called the accusations &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; and &#8220;baseless,&#8221; adding that the evidence presented by the complainant against the writers was even more irrelevant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-10 col-lg-10 pull-right\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-8 col-lg-8 pull-left bottom-offset content-offset\">\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"content-floated-wrap fb-quotable\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>According to the statement, the writers were asked in their interrogations about the reasons for their membership in the Writers Association and publishing the association&#8217;s pamphlet.<\/p>\n<p>Among their accusations were paying tribute to deceased poets and writers, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian government does not recognize the Writers Association although it has been active for many decades, campaigning against censorship and in support of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian authorities have never responded to concerns expressed by international human rights watchdogs about its gross violation of human rights including the rights of Iranian writers and intellectuals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; In a statement issued on Thursday, the Iran&#8217;s Writers Association (IWA), a civil society union, has protested the sentencing of three Iranian writers, who received a total of 18 years in prison IWA condemned the verdict as one &#8220;against all writers and everyone struggling for freedom of expression.&#8221; Iran\u2019s Judiciary on Wednesday sentenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}