{"id":313309,"date":"2017-09-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3790-amwju-protests-killing-of-tripura-journalist"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:30:00","slug":"amwju-protests-killing-of-tripura-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/09\/21\/amwju-protests-killing-of-tripura-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"AMWJU protests killing of Tripura journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/ba2952e232b71d6a6e3dd01ef5f06fcf_S.jpg\" alt=\"AMWJU protests killing of Tripura journalist\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Sept 21<\/p>\n<p>Members of All Manipur Working Journalist Union (AMWJU) staged a sit-in protest today condemning the killing of journalist, Santanu Bhowmik yesterday evening while covering Indigenous People\u2019s Front of Tripura (IPFT) agitation at Tripura.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports Santanu who was working at a local television channel was abducted and killed using sharps object while covering the agitation.<\/p>\n<p>AMWJU president, W. Samjai said that such unlawful act of killing a journalist while performing his duty is a challenge to the freedom of press.<\/p>\n<p>In the state from the year 1982 till today six journalists were killed but till today police are still not able to arrest the murderer, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Though press is referred as the 4th estate of the democracy a total of 36 journalists of the state have faced harassment from security personnel and locals while performing their duties, continued the union president.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that media persons are serving the public without having any bias in reporting he said it will be very wrong to kill or attack a journalist and appealed not to repeat such action in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3790-amwju-protests-killing-of-tripura-journalist\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3790-amwju-protests-killing-of-tripura-journalist<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/ba2952e232b71d6a6e3dd01ef5f06fcf_S.jpg\" alt=\"AMWJU protests killing of Tripura journalist\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Sept 21<\/p>\n<p>Members of All Manipur Working Journalist Union (AMWJU) staged a sit-in protest today condemning the killing of journalist, Santanu Bhowmik yesterday evening while covering Indigenous People&rsquo;s Front of Tripura (IPFT) agitation at Tripura.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports Santanu who was working at a local television channel was abducted and killed using sharps object while covering the agitation.<\/p>\n<p>AMWJU president, W. Samjai said that such unlawful act of killing a journalist while performing his duty is a challenge to the freedom of press.<\/p>\n<p>In the state from the year 1982 till today six journalists were killed but till today police are still not able to arrest the murderer, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Though press is referred as the 4th estate of the democracy a total of 36 journalists of the state have faced harassment from security personnel and locals while performing their duties, continued the union president.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that media persons are serving the public without having any bias in reporting he said it will be very wrong to kill or attack a journalist and appealed not to repeat such action in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-313309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313310,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313309\/revisions\/313310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}