{"id":542567,"date":"2025-11-01T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:40:13","slug":"mass-rally-held-in-france-in-solidarity-with-iranian-academic-mahdieh-esfandiari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542567\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass rally held in France in solidarity with Iranian academic Mahdieh Esfandiari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">A group of French, Arab and international human rights activists have staged a mass rally in the French capital, Paris, in solidarity with Iranian academic Mahdieh Esfandiari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Iranian national, recently released on parole, had been in detention in France for nearly eight months simply for supporting Palestinians and the Palestinian cause on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">During the rally, the demonstrators condemned French and other European governments\u2019 double standards on the freedom of speech. The demonstrators chanted slogans, calling for the unconditional release of Esfandiari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">She went missing in early March, 2025. After remaining tight-lipped for nearly a month, French judicial officials finally broke the silence and confirmed in early April 2025 that she had been detained. Esfandiari was granted &#8216;conditional release&#8217; last month. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of French, Arab and international human rights activists have staged a mass rally in the French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,774,174593,1814],"class_list":{"0":"post-542567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-mahdieh-esfandiari","13":"tag-palestine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115475908064557228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}