{"id":2098,"date":"2012-05-24T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2012-05-24T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:44:31","slug":"we-demand-the-immediate-release-of-dr-fariborz-raisdana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"We demand the immediate release of Dr. Fariborz Raisdana!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2106\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisdana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2106\" title=\"raisdana\" src=\"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisdana-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fariborz Raisdana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>We demand the immediate release of Dr. Fariborz Raisdana!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday the 20th of May, Dr Raisdana &#8211; academic, leftwing economist and writer &#8211; was arrested and sent to the notorious Evin prison. He is a well known intellectual, economist, social activist and member of the Iranian writers\u2019 association. He has published several books and articles on political economy and sociology. He is well known as a leftist socio-economic expert who always considers the plight of the Iranian working class in his economic analysis. Dr. Raisdana\u2019s field of expertise is econometrics. He has tried hard to disclose how workers and wage earners have been affected by the relations of political economy in the turbulent Iranian society and how they have been increasingly suffering.<\/p>\n<p>He has consistently criticised the Iranian government socio-economic programmes and often points out how social and political oppression is implemented to impose policies such as the unfair plan to abolish\/reduce the allocation of national subsidies. There is no doubt that military economic planning has reduced social welfare and added\u00a0 pressure on the poorer classes. Dr. Raisdana has always been their voice in the society and it is his stance against unfair economic policies that has landed him in jail.<\/p>\n<p>HOPI condemns Dr. Raisdana\u2019s arrest and demands his immediate and unconditional release.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We demand the immediate release of Dr. Fariborz Raisdana! On Monday the 20th of May, Dr Raisdana &#8211; academic, leftwing economist and writer &#8211; was arrested and sent to the notorious Evin prison. He is a well known intellectual, economist, social activist and member of the Iranian writers\u2019 association. He has published several books and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We demand the immediate release of Dr. Fariborz Raisdana!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,145,156,268,513,572],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran-news","tag-arrest","tag-democracy","tag-economy","tag-iran","tag-raisdana","tag-socialism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}