{"id":5537,"date":"2019-02-21T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2019-02-21T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:37:15","slug":"attack-on-tamil-journalist-in-jaffna-strongly-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/attack-on-tamil-journalist-in-jaffna-strongly-condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Tamil journalist in Jaffna strongly condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An attack on a Tamil journalist in Jaffna yesterday was strongly condemned today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian S. Sritharan told Parliament that justice must be ensured for the journalist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that the attack was seen as a warning to the media in the North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena expressed concern over the attack on journalist Nadarajah Kugarajah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter has condemned the brutal attack on a journalist for doing his job and urged the concerned authorities to thoroughly investigate the matter and hold the officer responsible for this attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to Free Media Movement (FMM), the Acting Officer-in-Charge of the Kopay police station attacked Kugarajah while he was recording an incident in Kokkuvil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kugarajah, a journalist from Dan TV, a Tamil television channel had been threatened not to record the incident, but when he didn\u2019t stopped his coverage the police officer attacked and injured the journalist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kugarajah was later admitted to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attack on a Tamil journalist in Jaffna yesterday was strongly condemned today. Tamil&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}