{"id":28280,"date":"2024-01-09T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=28280"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:48:30","slug":"canada-why-is-a-journalist-arrested-after-asking-a-question-to-a-top-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/canada-why-is-a-journalist-arrested-after-asking-a-question-to-a-top-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: why is a journalist arrested after asking a question to a top politician?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CanadaBanana.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CanadaBanana.jpg 625w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CanadaBanana-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In a Banana Republic, freedom of expression is highly restricted<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is upside down. Bambi just returned back home from Beirut, the capital of a non-sovereign yet beautiful country, which increasingly looks like an Iranian colony. Yet, even there, journalists seem to still be able to ask independent questions (when they are not being killed in wars or silenced forever). Ironically, in Canada, a journalist from <em>Rebel News<\/em> was arrested after asking a question related to Iran. Does this make any sense? Shame on Canada for this troubling incident of abuse of power, which took place on the sad anniversary of the downing of a commercial flight by Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cops (IRGC). Bravo to Mr. Davis Menzies for continuing to report in such unacceptable circumstances. May the memory of all those who were killed in Tehran on board of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 be eternal. Of note, many of them were Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Iranian heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"BREAKING: Rebel News\u2019 David Menzies brutally arrested for scrumming Freeland\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UnUfUoFODRg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Nana Mouskouri - Song For Liberty\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBxiqCQ5H0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is upside down. Bambi just returned back home from Beirut, the capital of a non-sovereign yet beautiful country, which increasingly looks like an Iranian colony. Yet, even there, journalists seem to still be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28284,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions\/28284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}