{"id":2688,"date":"2017-09-23T01:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2017-09-23T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:24:48","slug":"press-freedom-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/09\/23\/press-freedom-in-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Press freedom in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nPress freedom is now in great danger. Just a few days after the murder of Gauri Lankesh, Shantanu Bhowmik, a Tripura based journalist was killed. Already, India has slipped 3 places from 133rd in 2016 to 136th in this year in World Press Freedom Ranking Index which is released by the International Free Speech Advocate Reporters Without Borders.<br \/>\nIt will be a bad day for democracy if the press has to work in a reign of terror.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, Gauri Lankesh&#8217;s killers who dared to kill her in front of her home, are still at large. We already have a long list of such murders &#8211; Narendra Davolkar, Govind Pansare, Malleshappa Kalburgi, Jyotirmoy Dey and others. This underscores the need for speedy criminal justice delivery system for the survival of our democracy.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sujit De,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kolkata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, Press freedom is now in great danger. Just a few days after the murder of Gauri Lankesh, Shantanu Bhowmik, a Tripura based journalist was killed. Already, India has slipped 3 places from 133rd in 2016 to 136th in this year in World Press Freedom Ranking Index which is released by the International Free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}