{"id":3971,"date":"2016-11-18T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2016-11-18T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:01:23","slug":"esmail-abdis-long-struggle-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Esmail Abdi&#8217;s long struggle for justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"esmail\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><strong>Esmail Abdi<\/strong>, a leading Iranian teacher trade unionist, was the subject of two LabourStart campaigns in the last year, the first one after he was blocked from attending a congress of the Education International (EI) in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;ve launched a third campaign at the request of the EI now that he&#8217;s been sentenced to 6 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results of those campaigns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 2015: 12,698<\/li>\n<li>February 2016: 6,307<\/li>\n<li>November 2016 (so far): 4,367<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please take a moment to spread news of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3223\"><strong>this campaign<\/strong><\/a> in your country and to your unions &#8212; especially teachers unions. \u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esmail Abdi, a leading Iranian teacher trade unionist, was the subject of two LabourStart campaigns in the last year, the first one after he was blocked from attending a congress of the Education International (EI) in Canada. This week we&#8217;ve launched a third campaign at the request of the EI now that he&#8217;s been sentenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}