{"id":894599,"date":"2022-11-24T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/24\/australian-among-40-foreign-nationals-held-in-irans-jails-amid-escalating-protests"},"modified":"2022-11-24T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:00:14","slug":"australian-among-40-foreign-nationals-held-in-irans-jails-amid-escalating-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/24\/australian-among-40-foreign-nationals-held-in-irans-jails-amid-escalating-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian among 40 foreign nationals held in Iran\u2019s jails amid escalating protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime refuses to provide consular access as it does not recognise dual nationality, Dfat says<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/nov\/24\/australian-politics-live-federal-icac-nacc-integrity-commission-corruption-watchdog-environment-floods-industrial-relations-vic-qld-nsw\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>An Australian citizen is among at least 40 foreign nationals now held in Iranian jails amid pro-democracy protests across the country \u2013 and an escalating violent response by regime forces.<\/p><p>A spokesperson for Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the Iranian-Australian dual national had not been arrested for taking part in the anti-regime protests but confirmed that Australian officials had been refused access to assess the person\u2019s welfare.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/24\/australian-among-40-foreign-nationals-held-in-irans-jails-amid-escalating-protests\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/24\/australian-among-40-foreign-nationals-held-in-irans-jails-amid-escalating-protests\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime refuses to provide consular access as it does not recognise dual nationality, Dfat saysFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian citizen is am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,1339,6,25,54727,1258,1156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894600,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894599\/revisions\/894600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}