{"id":27675,"date":"2011-10-10T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27675"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:52:58","slug":"pakistan-web-journalist-murdered-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27675","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Web journalist murdered in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Hindustantimes - Pakistani web journalist murdered in Lahore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/Pakistani-web-journalist-murdered-in-Lahore-Police\/Article1-754979.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">body of a journalist<\/a>\u00a0working for a London-based online news site has been discovered by police in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Pakistan\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan<\/a>.\u00a0Faisal Qureshi, 28, who was working as web-editor for internet publication the <a title=\"The London Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondonpost.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Post<\/a>, was discovered on Friday morning in Lahore, with his <a title=\"The Express Tribune - London Post journalist's mutilated body found\" href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/268843\/london-post-journalists-mutilated-body-found-in-lahore\/\" target=\"_blank\">throat slit<\/a>, and stab wounds to his body. Shahid Qureshi, Faisal Qureshi&#8217;s brother, told police his brother had been receiving <a title=\"CPJ - Pakistani journalist killed in Lahore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/10\/pakistani-journalist-killed-in-lahore.php\" target=\"_blank\">death threats<\/a>\u00a0from unidentified people which he believed to be over some news reports in his paper. Qureshi&#8217;s laptop and mobile phone were also missing. Police have said the motive for the murder is unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a journalist\u00a0working for a London-based online news site has been discovered by police in Pakistan.\u00a0Faisal Qureshi, 28, who was working as web-editor for internet publication the London Post, was discovered on Friday morning in Lahore, with his throat slit, and stab wounds to his body. Shahid Qureshi, Faisal Qureshi&#8217;s brother, told police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[3887,3655,3886,7351,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27689,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675\/revisions\/27689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}