{"id":243727,"date":"2024-07-05T00:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=243727"},"modified":"2024-07-05T00:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:54:04","slug":"apc-apuwj-condemn-assault-attempt-on-scribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/apc-apuwj-condemn-assault-attempt-on-scribe\/","title":{"rendered":"APC, APUWJ condemn assault attempt on scribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 4 Jul:<\/strong> The Arunachal Press Club (APC) and the Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ) have strongly condemned the alleged attempt to assault Nangram Kayang, a reporter for The Spark News, by Bengia Dongsu, the labour supervisor of Jainco Company (Package 7).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex media bodies received a formal complaint from Topan Rimo, the Chief Executive Officer of The Spark News, stating that the incident occurred on 2 July at Miba village when Kayang was investigating the prolonged blockage of the Sangram highway and the lack of response from the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An altercation ensued, during which the labour supervisor allegedly tried to assault the reporter and used derogatory language. Several people stranded on the highway witnessed the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APC and the APUWJ in a joint statement expressed deep concern over the incident and emphasised that such occurrences are unacceptable as they hinder free and fair functioning of the press, which is essential for a democratic society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Journalists play a crucial role in bringing important issues to light, and their safety must be a top priority. Any attempt to intimidate or harm them is an attack on the freedom of the press and democracy itself,&#8221; the media bodies said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisations have demanded immediate and strict action against the individual responsible for the assault attempt, and a thorough investigation into the entire incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 4 Jul: The Arunachal Press Club (APC) and the Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ) have strongly condemned the alleged attempt to assault Nangram Kayang, a reporter for The Spark News, by Bengia Dongsu, the labour supervisor of Jainco Company (Package 7). The apex media bodies received a formal complaint from Topan Rimo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243727","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=243727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}