{"id":25737,"date":"2011-08-18T16:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25737"},"modified":"2011-08-19T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T10:42:21","slug":"india-right-to-information-activist-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25737","title":{"rendered":"India: Right to information activist murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Shehla Masood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/shehla-masood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shehla Masood<\/a>, a freedom of information activist and blogger, was <a title=\"RSF: Right to information campaigner Shehla Masood shot dead\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/india-right-to-information-campaigner-17-08-2011,40804.html\" target=\"_blank\">murdered<\/a> yesterday in the city of Bhopal. The 39-year-old was shot in the neck as she got into a car in front of her home. Over the past two years, Masood had been publicly pushing for the enforcement of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India.\u00a0The 2005 RTI Act provides access to certain public documents but those seeking them &#8212; namely material involving sensitive local matters &#8212; are often targeted by officials, with a dozen people <a title=\"RSF: Right to information campaigner Shehla Masood shot dead\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/india-right-to-information-campaigner-17-08-2011,40804.html\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly being\u00a0killed<\/a>\u00a0last year for doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehla Masood, a freedom of information activist and blogger, was murdered yesterday in the city of Bhopal. The 39-year-old was shot in the neck as she got into a car in front of her home. Over the past two years, Masood had been publicly pushing for the enforcement of the Right to Information (RTI) Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[100,92,727,666,3668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25737"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25789,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25737\/revisions\/25789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}