{"id":979635,"date":"2023-02-02T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/film-maker-jafar-panahi-begins-hunger-strike-in-iranian-prison"},"modified":"2023-02-02T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:52:41","slug":"film-maker-jafar-panahi-begins-hunger-strike-in-iranian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/02\/film-maker-jafar-panahi-begins-hunger-strike-in-iranian-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Film-maker Jafar Panahi begins hunger strike in Iranian prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panahi says he will not eat until he is released, after lawyer successfully challenged his detention<\/p>

One of Iran\u2019s most illustrious film-makers, Jafar Panahi, is on hunger strike in protest at his continued detention in Tehran\u2019s Evin prison<\/a>, his wife has said.<\/p>

The Cannes film festival award-winner and director of The White Balloon, The Circle and No Bears<\/a> took the step after plans for his release were dashed, even though his lawyer had successfully challenged his detention.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panahi says he will not eat until he is released, after lawyer successfully challenged his detentionOne of Iran\u2019s most illustrious film-makers, Jafar Panahi, is on hunger strike in protest at his continued detention in Tehran\u2019s Evin prison, his wife ha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,554,6,25,56105,1258,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979635"}],"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\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979637,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979635\/revisions\/979637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}