{"id":2303,"date":"2026-04-15T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:51:08","slug":"%db%8c%d9%88%d8%b3%d9%81-%d8%b9%d8%b2%db%8c%d8%b2%db%8c-%d8%b1%d8%a7-%d8%a2%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%af-%da%a9%d9%86%db%8c%d8%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/archives\/2303","title":{"rendered":"Free Yousof Azizi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April 14, in front of his home by ICE forces. ICE officials have informed him that he will soon be transferred to a detention camp for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

Azizi is a well-known media figure in the Persian-language sphere who has participated in hundreds of debates and discussions across various media outlets, including BBC Persian.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that his arrest \u2014 given that he has been one of the rare voices opposing war and sanctions against the people of Iran on BBC Persian \u2014 has been carried out with the political motive of silencing opponents of the illegal war against Iran.<\/p>\n

We call on all defenders of peace and freedom of expression to take action with full force for the release of Yousof Azizi.<\/p>\n

Yousof Azizi Defense Committee:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Dan Kovalik \u2022 Ajamu Baraka \u2022 Bahman Azad \u2022 Sara Flounders
\n\u2022 Ali Alizadeh \u2022 Suzanne Adely \u2022 Margaret Flowers \u2022 Joe Lombardo<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Click Here to Sign the Petition for his Release<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Here to Make A Donation to his Legal Defense Fund<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April 14, in front of his home by ICE forces. ICE officials have informed him that he will soon be transferred to a detention camp for undocumented immigrants. Azizi is a well-known media figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-86"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecziiran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}