{"id":9738,"date":"2012-05-15T07:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2012-05-15T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:08:21","slug":"iran-needs-to-step-up-on-human-rights-and-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9738","title":{"rendered":"Iran needs to Step-up on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran: Rapper faces death threats and fatwa for \u2018blasphemous\u2019 song<\/strong><br \/>\n15 May, 2012 &#8211; Index on Censorship<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian rapper has been issued with fatwas and faced death threats after releasing a controversial song. Shahin Najafi, an Iranian singer based in Germany, released a song containing references to one of the 12 Shia Muslim Imams. The song, which was posted on YouTube, offended some who claim it insults their beliefs, while others claim the song breaks taboos on expressing views about religious personalities. A religious Iranian website has offered a reward of $100,000 (\u00a362,000) for anyone who kills the rapper.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/05\/iran-rapper-faces-death-threats-and-fatwa-for-blasphemous-song\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D9738&amp;text=Iran+needs+to+Step-up+on+Human+Rights+and+Freedom+of+Expression&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran: Rapper faces death threats and fatwa for \u2018blasphemous\u2019 song 15 May, 2012 &#8211; Index on Censorship An Iranian rapper has been issued with fatwas and faced death threats after releasing a controversial song. Shahin Najafi, an Iranian singer based in Germany, released a song containing references to one of the 12 Shia Muslim Imams. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9738#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1596],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9739,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}