{"id":24079,"date":"2015-09-30T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=24079"},"modified":"2015-10-04T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T20:32:23","slug":"freethe20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/freethe20\/","title":{"rendered":"Two out of 20 female political prisoners were released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/free-the-20-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the start of the campaign \u201cFree the 20\u201d only two female political prisoners were released. Sana Seif detained in Egypt in December of 2014, was released a few days ago as a result of amnesty decision for 100 people detained by the president. Meanwhile, Vietnamese blogger Ra Pong Than after being released on September 19<sup>th<\/sup> moved to US for permanent residence. The blogger was charged for \u201canti-government propaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their names were included in \u201cFree the 20\u201d campaign, launched from September 1<sup>st<\/sup> in USA, which aims to release female political prisoners around the world from illegal detention. These women were arrested for their political views and as a result of their civic activity. The list also includes Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismajilova and human rights defender Leyla Yunus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelease these 20 and many other women and girls who are left in the shade, as these 20 women are only a small part of women who were unjustly detained\u201d, &#8211; said US Ambassador to UN Samantha Power. She emphasized, that unjustly arresting women, authorities impede realization of their rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Given that many of the political prisoners are from North Korea, campaign organizers have chosen the conventional image of a female prisoner not separating any of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are still 18 female political prisoners.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; After the start of the campaign \u201cFree the 20\u201d only two female political prisoners were released. Sana Seif detained in Egypt in December of 2014, was released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-134"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}