{"id":23967,"date":"2011-06-21T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23967"},"modified":"2011-06-21T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:13:59","slug":"pakistan-guardian-journalist-beaten-up-following-tv-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23967","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Guardian journalist beaten by men in police uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian journalist Waqar Kiani\u00a0<a title=\"The Guardian: Guardian journalist badly beaten for the second time in Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jun\/19\/guardian-journalist-beaten-pakistan\" target=\"_blank\">has claimed <\/a>that he was abducted and tortured by <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistani<\/a> intelligence agents on Saturday night. The alleged attack\u00a0followed a television appearance where he discussed\u00a0a previous assault which took place in 2008, <a title=\"Pakistan Observer: Guardian journalist was abducted, blindfolded, beaten and burned\" href=\"http:\/\/pakistan-observer.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/waqar-kiani-guardian-journalist-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">the details <\/a>of which had only just been released. Kiani has been working on a story about the illegal detention and torture of Islamist militants by Pakistani Inter-Services\u00a0Intelligence . The 32-year-old claims that he was stopped, dragged from his car and attacked with wooden batons and a rubber whip. He\u00a0is currently being treated\u00a0in the\u00a0Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian journalist Waqar Kiani\u00a0has claimed that he was abducted and tortured by Pakistani intelligence agents on Saturday night. The alleged attack\u00a0followed a television appearance where he discussed\u00a0a previous assault which took place in 2008, the details of which had only just been released. Kiani has been working on a story about the illegal detention and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[457,134,3434,7351,727,3508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24037,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967\/revisions\/24037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}