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19 June 2025
\nNews Category: Freedom of Expression \u2013 Arrests<\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 On Tuesday, 17 June 2025, a resident of Behbahan was arrested for publishing a satirical video related to the Israeli attack.<\/p>\n According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, Ali Shahbazi,<\/strong> a Behbahan resident, was arrested by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location for posting a satirical video about the recent Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n Breathing in Confinement reports that this arrest is part of a broader new wave of restrictions on freedom of expression and repression of online spaces, which authorities are justifying under the guise of \u201cwartime conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n Following recent Israeli airstrikes, officials of the Islamic Republic have warned, citing security concerns, that any publication of content deemed to \u201cdisrupt public order\u201d or \u201cdisturb public opinion\u201d will face legal consequences. This has raised alarm among human rights organisations about a growing crackdown on civil liberties, particularly the right to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n Breathing in Confinement expressed concern over the increasing violation of citizens\u2019 fundamental rights, stating that the arrest of individuals for expressing opinions or publishing satirical content\u2014especially regarding political and wartime matters\u2014is contrary to established human rights principles and a blatant violation of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 19 June 2025 News Category: Freedom of Expression – Arrests Breathing in Confinement – On Tuesday, 17 June 2025, a resident of Behbahan was arrested for publishing a satirical video related to the Israeli attack. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Ali Shahbazi, a Behbahan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1019,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrests","category-freedom-of-expression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1Dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}