{"id":697,"date":"2007-10-27T09:43:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=697"},"modified":"2007-10-27T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T08:43:52","slug":"better-news-fron-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Better news fron Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/10\/more_worrying_news_from_iran.html\">an earlier posting<\/a>, jailed Iranian labour activist Mansour Osanloo faced the loss of vision in one eye while the regime refused him medical treatment.  A massive online campaign, involving Amnesty International, the International Transport Workers Federation, and many thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/\">LabourStart<\/a> readers, resulted in Osanloo receiving the medical treatment he needed last weekend.  The more than 10,000 messages sent to the government in Tehran had a great &#8211; and immediate &#8211; impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported in an earlier posting, jailed Iranian labour activist Mansour Osanloo faced the loss of vision in one eye while the regime refused him medical treatment. A massive online campaign, involving Amnesty International, the International Transport Workers Federation, and many thousands of LabourStart readers, resulted in Osanloo receiving the medical treatment he needed [&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-697","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\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}