{"id":2475,"date":"2011-06-21T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2021-06-07T23:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T23:35:44","slug":"before-the-next-article-a-short-overview-of-iranian-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/21\/before-the-next-article-a-short-overview-of-iranian-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the next article … a short overview of Iranian jails…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit, my updates have been a little slow lately. TO defend myself, I could blame internet connection in Myanmar. They are scarce and the few I found are not what you would call fast. To ease your wait, I would like to redirect you to a fascinating article written by a fellow traveler and countryman I met on the road in Iran. His story is uncommon. I know, it’s in French but it’s worth picking up your dictionary or at worst an online translator.<\/p>\n

After having celebrated the New Year together (sober, as alcohol is forbidden in this Islamic Republic in case you had forgotten) I left him and Luke (a Dutch biker also met in Iran) to get my wheels back on the road.<\/p>\n

A few hours later, as I was back with Lizzie, my two friends were arrested in the street. Their nightmare was only beginning as they were about to spend 15 days behind iranian bars.<\/p>\n

Their story is beautifully counted here on Doudou’s blog (aka Edward the Prisoner), you should really go check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n

This anecdote should remind us that, even though the iranian population always has a very warm welcome, and even though the country is slowly opening up to tourists, it’s still a country extremely security concerned and paranoid about any foreigners on its soil.<\/p>\n

However this does not change my opinion on the country, I still wish you would all go visit this wonderful and complex country. Everybody talks about it but few have been there! After what Doudou experienced, I can only advise you be really careful! I don’t want to be reading your unfortunate stories on a blog …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must admit, my updates have been a little slow lately. TO defend myself, I could blame internet connection in … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7538,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/7538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespassengers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}