{"id":213423,"date":"2023-03-23T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=213423"},"modified":"2023-03-23T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:42:55","slug":"editors-guild-voices-concern-over-arrest-of-jk-based-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/editors-guild-voices-concern-over-arrest-of-jk-based-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors Guild voices concern over arrest of J&#038;K-based journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NEW DELHI, 22 Mar: The Editors Guild of India on Wednesday voiced &#8220;deep concern&#8221; over the arrest of Jammu and Kashmir-based journalist Irfan Mehraj and &#8220;excessive use&#8221; of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against mediapersons.<br \/>\nIt said earlier journalists Aasif Sultan, Sajad Gul and Fahad Shah too were arrested. &#8220;The space for media freedom has progressively eroded in Kashmir,&#8221; the Guild said in a statement issued here.<br \/>\n&#8220;Irfan Mehraj&#8217;s arrest continues a trend in Kashmir of security forces arresting journalists because of their critical reporting of the establishment,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\nMehraj was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in connection with a terror funding case.<br \/>\nThe Guild urged the administration to respect democratic values and stop the harassment of journalists in the name of national security. Mehraj had started his career as a journalist in 2015 and covered politics and human rights extensively, it said.<br \/>\nMehraj has written for several publications about the situation in Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 and also runs an online publication called Wande Magazine, the Guild said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 22 Mar: The Editors Guild of India on Wednesday voiced &#8220;deep concern&#8221; over the arrest of Jammu and Kashmir-based journalist Irfan Mehraj and &#8220;excessive use&#8221; of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against mediapersons. It said earlier journalists Aasif Sultan, Sajad Gul and Fahad Shah too were arrested. &#8220;The space for media freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}