{"id":6284,"date":"2025-06-19T22:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2025-06-19T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:12:59","slug":"toomaj-salehi-arrested-in-kish-amid-escalating-repression-under-pretext-of-israeli-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/arrests\/toomaj-salehi-arrested-in-kish-amid-escalating-repression-under-pretext-of-israeli-airstrikes","title":{"rendered":"Toomaj Salehi Arrested in Kish Amid Escalating Repression Under Pretext of Israeli Airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"259\"><strong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"228\">19 June 2025<\/strong><br data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"231\" \/><strong data-start=\"231\" data-end=\"257\">News category: Arrests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"415\"><strong>Breathing in Confinement <\/strong>\u2013 Dissident rapper <strong data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"324\">Toomaj Salehi<\/strong> was arrested by security forces on Kish Island and transferred to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"664\">According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&#8217; Rights League in Iran, this arrest occurred amid an increasingly repressive atmosphere and a new wave of crackdowns, which has intensified following the Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"739\">A statement published on Toomaj Salehi\u2019s official Instagram page reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"740\" data-end=\"948\">\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"948\">\u201cWe have no information about the detaining authority, his place of detention, or Toomaj\u2019s well-being. The government bears full responsibility for his safety and life. Toomaj must be released immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"1291\">Toomaj Salehi, an artist and rap singer, was previously arrested during the nationwide protests in 2022. He had been released from Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan on 1 December 2024, after serving a one-year sentence. Salehi has long been under pressure and threats due to his music, which openly criticises repression, corruption, and injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 June 2025News category: Arrests Breathing in Confinement &ndash; Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi was arrested by security forces on Kish Island and transferred to an undisclosed location. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&rsquo; Rights League in Iran, this arrest occurred amid an increasingly repressive atmosphere and a new wave of [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1Dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","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=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}