{"id":5744,"date":"2017-05-10T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T07:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=87543"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T07:53:22","slug":"ppf-concerned-over-the-suspension-of-al-jazeera-english-bureau-in-juba-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-concerned-over-the-suspension-of-al-jazeera-english-bureau-in-juba-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF concerned over the suspension of Al-Jazeera English bureau in Juba, South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"PPF](\"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PPF-Logo-with-Slogan-1.jpg\" "\\"PPF")
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of Republic of the South Sudan to express concerned over the suspension of Al-Jazeera English bureau in Juba by South Sudan\u2019s Media Authority on May 1, 2017.<\/p>\n
PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged government of South Sudan in order to stop the arbitrary closure of Al-Jazeera bureau in Juba as an attack on media freedom and right to free reporting in South Sudan.<\/p>\n
According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the bureau\u2019s staff is barred from covering anything in South Sudan until further notice to be issued by the Media Authority.<\/p>\n
The ban follows a series of Al-Jazeera reports about the ongoing clashes between government forces and rebel troops. On 20 April, many civilians had been displaced due to fighting in the southern county of Kajo-Keji. Its references to the significant losses sustained by the government forces in the course of fighting seem to upset the authorities.<\/p>\n
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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of Republic of the South Sudan to express concerned over the suspension of Al-Jazeera English bureau in Juba by South Sudan’s Media Authority on May 1, 2017. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged government of South Sudan in order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[4,328,3586,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}