{"id":7388,"date":"2018-12-24T13:54:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=93491"},"modified":"2018-12-24T13:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:54:50","slug":"ppf-condemns-arrest-and-assault-on-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-condemns-arrest-and-assault-on-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF condemns arrest and assault on journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"PPF](\"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PPF-New-Logo-250x139-1-1-200x139.jpg\" "\\"PPF")
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Bruno Tshibala, Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of the Congo has expressed concern over the arrest and assault on Rodrigue Ndakazieka, a journalist and technician at Radio Mwinda.<\/p>\n
PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, condemned the arrest and physical assault on Ndakazieka and called on the authorities to immediately release him.<\/p>\n
According to Journaliste en danger (JED), Ndakazieka was arrested for covering a meeting of opposition presidential hopeful, Martin Fayulu.<\/p>\n
On December 19, when the journalist was leaving his editorial office he was picked up by police officers and forcibly taken to the residence of a local deputy from the majority party, where he was tied up and violently beaten for hours.<\/p>\n
Later in the evening Ndakazieka was transferred to Kinshasa Provincial Police Station. The journalist was arrested soon after he broadcasted the rally of opponent and presidential candidate Martin Fayulu live.<\/p>\n
The director of Radio Mwinda, Jean Bosco Diona said that the services of the station were under-siege by a group of police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Bruno Tshibala, Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of the Congo has expressed concern over the arrest and assault on Rodrigue Ndakazieka, a journalist and technician at Radio Mwinda. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, condemned the arrest and physical assault on Ndakazieka and called […]<\/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":[4,123,3038,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388"}],"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=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}