{"id":5899,"date":"2017-05-23T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=87702"},"modified":"2017-05-23T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:31:55","slug":"ppf-seeks-justice-for-slain-mexican-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-seeks-justice-for-slain-mexican-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF seeks justice for slain Mexican journalist"},"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 Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, President of Mexico, is alarmed over the killing of Javier Valdez C\u00e1rdenas on May 15, in Culiac\u00e1n, the capital of Sinaloa state.<\/p>\n
PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali urged the government of Mexico, to thoroughly investigate the incident and bring to justice, the perpetrators of this brutal act and reinforce its commitment to media safety and freedom by ending the culture of impunity.<\/p>\n
According to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Valdez was shot near the offices of R\u00edodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003. He covered drug trafficking and crimes and wrote a number of books about the drug trade. Valdez had told CPJ in the weeks before his murder that he was concerned for his safety.<\/p>\n
CPJ honored Javier Valdez C\u00e1rdenas with an International Press Freedom Award in 2011 to recognize his bravery and uncompromising journalism in the face of threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, is alarmed over the killing of Javier Valdez Cárdenas on May 15, in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali urged the government of Mexico, to thoroughly investigate the incident and bring to justice, the perpetrators […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[4,328,3038,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}