{"id":7272,"date":"2018-11-29T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=93087"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:36:07","slug":"ppf-concerned-over-assault-on-journalist-in-colombo-srilanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-concerned-over-assault-on-journalist-in-colombo-srilanka\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF concerned over assault on journalist in Colombo, Srilanka"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"PPF](\"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PPF-New-Logo-250x139-1-2-200x139.jpg\" "\\"PPF")
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has expressed concern over the assault on a journalist in Colombo.<\/p>\n
PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter has called on the Srilankan authorities to immediately investigate the incident and hold those responsible for attacking a journalist. PPF also urged the government to provide safe and secure environment for journalists working in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
According to the Free Media Movement (FMM), Indika Handuwala, a journalist and photographer of newly launched daily newspaper was assaulted by a security officer of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Ravindra Wijegunaratne on November 28.<\/p>\n
The journalist was covering the presence of Wijegunaratne at Fort Magistrate Court in Colombo, regarding the case on the abduction of 11 youngsters.<\/p>\n
During his tenure of Office in December 2016, the current Chief of the Defense who is also a commanding officer in the Sri Lankan Navy, was accused of attacking and threatening a journalist who had gone to cover a Citizens protest at the Hambantota Port. The trial was later settled over a judiciary decision after the convict apologized for his act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has expressed concern over the assault on a journalist in Colombo. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter has called on the Srilankan authorities to immediately investigate the incident and hold those responsible for attacking a journalist. PPF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,21],"tags":[4,1134,3038,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272"}],"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=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}