{"id":12679,"date":"2010-02-10T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2010-02-10T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:59:36","slug":"us-frees-jailed-iraqi-journalist-ibrahim-jassam-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12679","title":{"rendered":"US Frees Jailed Iraqi Journalist Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Democracy NOW!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/2\/10\/headlines#5\">10 February 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Iraq, the US military has freed an imprisoned Iraqi journalist after almost a year and a half behind bars. Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed was seized when US and Iraqi forces raided his home in September 2008. Soldiers took his computer hard drive and cameras and led him away handcuffed and blindfolded. The US held Jassam without charge despite an Iraqi court order for his release. He is one of several Iraqi journalists jailed at length by the US without ever facing charges. Following his release earlier today, Jassam said, \u201cHow can I describe my feelings? This is like being born again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy NOW! 10 February 2010 In Iraq, the US military has freed an imprisoned Iraqi journalist after almost a year and a half behind bars. Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed was seized when US and Iraqi forces raided his home in September &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12681,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions\/12681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}