{"id":691,"date":"2007-10-19T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=691"},"modified":"2007-10-19T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T17:20:29","slug":"more-worrying-news-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"More worrying news from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mansour Osanloo, the jailed leader of the bus workers&#8217; union in Tehran, faces the possible loss of his eyesight unless he receives urgent medical attention &#8211; which the Iranian authorities are denying him. As a former trade union official who has myself had severe vision problems in the past, this case resonates especially with me &#8211; but I hope will also concern you.<br \/>\nAmnesty International has just now launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=334\">an online campaign<\/a> calling on the Iranian government to allow Osanloo to receive medical attention.  I urge you to sent off your message today.  The Iranian government must be made aware that the world is watching.<br \/>\nThe International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), which has spearheaded the international campaign in defence of Osanloo, has now produced a short film entitled &#8220;Freedom Will Come&#8221; which tells his story.  It can be viewed online on YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=in-vF2LvITk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansour Osanloo, the jailed leader of the bus workers&#8217; union in Tehran, faces the possible loss of his eyesight unless he receives urgent medical attention &#8211; which the Iranian authorities are denying him. As a former trade union official who has myself had severe vision problems in the past, this case resonates especially with me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}