{"id":5971,"date":"2017-06-07T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=87835"},"modified":"2017-06-09T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T07:19:48","slug":"ppf-welcomes-the-courts-verdict-in-favour-of-journalist-in-east-timor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-welcomes-the-courts-verdict-in-favour-of-journalist-in-east-timor\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF welcomes the courts verdict in favour of journalist in East Timor"},"content":{"rendered":"Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Rui Maria De Ara\u00fajo, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to welcomed the verdict in favour of Raimundos Oki, a senior reporter for the Timor Post and his former editor Lourenco Martins at the district court in Dili, East Timor.\r\n\r\nPPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter appreciates the courts order and urges your government to create a climate in the East Timor\u00a0where media freedom flourishes.\r\n\r\nAccording to Timor Leste Press Union (TLPU), on June 1, both the journalist were not found guilty under \u201cslanderous denunciation\u201d, Dili court dismissed all the criminal defamation charges.\r\n\r\n\u201cYou are free, you can return to your normal activities and please be careful in reporting news,\u201d judge Ivan Gon\u00e7alves said.\r\n\r\nProsecutors had pushed for one year\u2019s jail for Oki and a two-year suspended sentence for Martins.\r\n\r\nThe November 2015 article claimed Rui Maria de Ara\u00fajo, as an adviser to the finance minister, had recommended a winning bid for a government supply contract, but misnamed the company.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Rui Maria De Ara\u00fajo, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to welcomed the verdict in favour of Raimundos Oki, a senior reporter for the Timor Post and his former editor Lourenco Martins at the district court in Dili, East Timor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[4,328,3038,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/PPF-Logo-with-Slogan-1-e1496992498286.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971"}],"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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}