{"id":5805,"date":"2024-03-01T05:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2024-03-05T05:42:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:42:50","slug":"5805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/03\/01\/5805\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202403011751\">\u201cNobel Laureate Exposes Iran&#8217;s Use Of Solitary Confinement,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 3-1-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhite torture \u2026 is different from white room torture, another form of psychological torture technique aimed at complete sensory deprivation and isolation that can lead to hallucinations and psychosis. In the latter form, which has also been employed in the prisons of the Islamic Republic, the prisoner is held for long stretches of time in a soundproofed cell with white walls and no windows, given white clothing and food such as rice, and is often deprived from sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/03\/01\/record-low-turnout-in-iran-as-voters-lose-faith-in-elections\/\">\u201cRecord Low Turnout in Iran as Voters Lose Faith in Elections,\u201d<\/a> Reason, 3-1-24.\u00a0 &#8220;Iran\u2019s leaders wanted to show the world a high voter turnout. Instead, people stayed home for the &#8220;sham&#8221; elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world will have to decide if Iran will hold the Strait hostage.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/only-grain-ships-black-sea-150321370.html\">\u201cOnly grain ships from Black Sea and for Iran still crossing Red Sea, analysts say,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 3-1-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNobel Laureate Exposes Iran&#8217;s Use Of Solitary Confinement,\u201d Iran International, 3-1-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhite torture \u2026 is different from white room torture, another form of psychological torture technique aimed at complete sensory deprivation and isolation that can lead to hallucinations and psychosis. In the latter form, which has also been employed in the prisons of the Islamic Republic, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/03\/01\/5805\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}