{"id":32502,"date":"2018-06-16T02:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=32502"},"modified":"2018-06-16T02:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:21:23","slug":"media-orgs-condemn-killing-of-shujaat-bukhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/06\/16\/media-orgs-condemn-killing-of-shujaat-bukhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Media orgs condemn killing of Shujaat Bukhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 15:<\/strong> The media bodies of Arunachal Pradesh have expressed shock at and condemned the murder of Rising Kashmir editor-in-chief Shujaat Bukhari by unknown assailants in Srinagar on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, the Arunachal Press Club and the Arunachal Electronic Media Association in a joint press statement on Friday expressed strong condemnation of the dastardly killing.<br \/>\nTerming the murder a cowardly attempt to silence the fourth estate, the media bodies said, &#8220;Such condemnable act of killing a journalist is equivalent to slaughtering the voice of millions, as media represents the people&#8217;s voice.<br \/>\n&#8220;We demand immediate arrest of the culprits, and express deep condolences to the family members of Mr Bukhari. We also pray that peace returns in the Kashmir valley,&#8221; they said.<br \/>\nPolice in Srinagar on Friday released the photograph of the fourth suspect in the murder of Bukhari.<br \/>\n&#8220;Srinagar Police seeks help of the general public to identify one more suspect involved in the terror attack at Press Enclave, Srinagar,&#8221; the police posted on its official Twitter handle and Facebook page.<br \/>\nThe senior journalist was shot dead in Press Colony, near Lal Chowk, in Srinagar by unidentified assailants on Thursday. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JFA expresses shock<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Journalists&#8217; Forum Assam (JFA) has also expressed shock at Bukhari&#8217;s murder and demanded early arrest of the culprits.<br \/>\n&#8220;As everyone in the Muslim world was waiting for Eid after the end of the holy Ramzan month, Shujaat&#8217;s killing is so painful. We urge the authority to leave no stone unturned to punish the perpetrators,&#8221; said a statement issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria.<br \/>\nThe JFA said the media fraternity across the country must stand united and raise their voice for justice to the braveheart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 15: The media bodies of Arunachal Pradesh have expressed shock at and condemned the murder of Rising Kashmir editor-in-chief Shujaat Bukhari by unknown assailants in Srinagar on Thursday. The Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, the Arunachal Press Club and the Arunachal Electronic Media Association in a joint press statement on Friday expressed [&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-32502","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\/32502","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=32502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}