{"id":454817,"date":"2010-03-21T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=129677"},"modified":"2010-03-21T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:01:50","slug":"dubai-iranian-blogger-omid-reza-mirsayafi-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/454817","title":{"rendered":"Dubai: Iranian Blogger Omid Reza Mirsayafi Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 young people from all four corners of the world came together in a cafe in Dubai and remembered the first anniversary of the death of Iranian <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2009\/03\/19\/omid-reza-mir-sayafi-iranian-blogger-dies-in-prison\/\">Omid Reza Mirsayafi<\/a>, the first blogger to die in prison. The meeting also reflected on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.march18.org\/\">March 18 Movement<\/a>, OR318, via art. <\/p>\n<p>Junkie, a team member of March 18 <a href=\"http:\/\/lhjunkie.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/communuty-meeting-for-or318-march-18.html\">explained <\/a>the planning of this meeting saying:   <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was thinking of organising a Tweetup (and arranging for a community-made art piece for the Movement on Thursday, 18 March.<br \/>\nThe art piece would comprise of a large canvas where supporters of the movement can gather and express what freedom of speech means to them. They can use any conceivable medium &#8211; pictures, drawings, poetry, or even a plain ol&#39; simple &#8220;I want free speech. kthxbai&#8221; scrawled across the canvas to convey their messages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photos.php?id=103278111741\">Here are<\/a> some of these art creations. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Against censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/or3181.jpg\" alt=\"or3181\" title=\"or3181\" width=\"719\" height=\"481\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/or3182.jpg\" alt=\"or3182\" title=\"or3182\" width=\"481\" height=\"719\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129687\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Freedom of Expression<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/or3183.jpg\" alt=\"or3183\" title=\"or3183\" width=\"719\" height=\"481\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video film showing the event in Dubai:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10323803&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10323803&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/10323803\">OR318 -March 18 Movement &#8211; Dubai Edition<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/mybigdayfilms\">Areeba Hanif<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>March 18 Movement uses <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2010\/03\/11\/iran-or318-memorial-to-blogger-death-in-priso\/\">animations<\/a> to reach out to a large and young audience. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZJOXst8KQ0o&#038;feature=player_embedded\">second animation <\/a> already received 75,000 hits. It was featured on the global homepage of YouTube on the 12th of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 young people from all four corners of the world came together in a cafe in Dubai and remembered the first anniversary of the death of Iranian Omid Reza Mirsayafi, the first blogger to die in prison. The meeting also reflected on the March 18 Movement, OR318, via art. Junkie, a team member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}