{"id":2283,"date":"2019-09-03T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/09\/protests-after-indian-reporter-probed-over-school-meal-expose-world\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:47:32","slug":"protests-after-indian-reporter-probed-over-school-meal-expose-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/09\/03\/protests-after-indian-reporter-probed-over-school-meal-expose-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests after Indian reporter probed over school meal expose – World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The authorities' attempt to accuse an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of the meals served at a government school triggered protests on Tuesday for fear that the press freedom in the country would worsen.<\/p>\n

Pawan Jaiswal made national headlines after reporting that poor elementary students in a district in the state of Uttar Pradesh were fed bread with salt instead of a mandatory healthy meal.<\/p>\n

The report generated widespread criticism of the local government controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who responded by launching a criminal investigation against Jaiswal.<\/p>\n

"It's a cruel and classic case of shooting the messenger," the Editors Guild of India said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n

"It is surprising that instead of taking measures to fix what is wrong on the ground, the government has filed criminal cases against the journalist." <\/p>\n

Dozens of journalists shouted slogans in front of the district office on Tuesday, demanding that Jaiswal's investigation be suspended.<\/p>\n

Examine:<\/strong> Forget the itchy cobra, we have to worry about the means that poison<\/em> <\/p>\n

Journalists in India have complained about the deterioration of media freedoms and vicious online attacks in recent years in the world's largest democracy.<\/p>\n

Frequently, politicians of all parties have implemented laws that seek to quell the criticisms of social networks.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, an activist of the ruling party was arrested for publishing a meme in the main opposition minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee. He was later released on bail by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

A journalist in the northeast of the state of Manipur was jailed last year for allegedly criticizing the prime minister of the state of BJP and Modi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1503311\/protests-after-indian-reporter-probed-over-school-meal-expose<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The authorities' attempt to accuse an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of the meals served at a government school triggered protests on Tuesday for fear that the press freedom in the country would worsen. Pawan Jaiswal made national headlines after reporting that poor elementary students in a district in the state of Uttar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}