{"id":2617,"date":"2006-01-25T17:58:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T00:58:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-25T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T00:58:25","slug":"freedom-of-speech-kurdish-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/freedom-of-speech-kurdish-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Speech, Kurdish-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish writer Kamal Karim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/GEO554662.htm\">is to be retried for the crime of defaming Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Karim had been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a trial that lasted one hour.  He was convicted in December under a law passed by the Kurdish regional parliament in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>His crime was to accuse the Kurdish political leader of corruption in an article on the website Kurdistanpost.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that the appeal was granted is that such cases usually only draw a 5-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish leaders promised to help deliver democracy and freedom of the press in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, who oppressed the Kurds for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish writer Kamal Karim is to be retried for the crime of defaming Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani. Karim had been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a trial that lasted one hour. He was convicted in December under a law passed by the Kurdish regional parliament in 2003. His crime was to accuse the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}