{"id":149669,"date":"2025-05-19T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149669"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:07:29","slug":"one-more-indian-journalist-killed-pec-demands-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/05\/19\/one-more-indian-journalist-killed-pec-demands-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"One more Indian journalist killed, PEC demands justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Press Emblem Campaign (PEC)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Geneva, 19 May 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety&nbsp; and rights body, expressed shock over the murder of another Indian &nbsp;journalist and demanded justice for the bereaved family of &nbsp;&nbsp;Dharmendra Singh Chauhan. The Haryana-based media person, who was associated with online media outlet named Fast News India, was shot at by the miscreants on 18 May and later succumbed to injuries in a Gurugram &nbsp;hospital in the night hours. Chauhan, who lived in Luhari village under Jhajjar district, was targeted as he went for a walk after his dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We condemn the murder of Dharmendra Singh Chauhan, who becomes the 64<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;journalist-victim across the world &nbsp;to be assassinated this year till date, and demands a fair probe to nab the culprits. PEC also urges&nbsp;Haryana province&nbsp; government chief &nbsp;Nayab Singh Saini to take personal interest in resolving the case and extend adequate compensation to the bereaved family,\u201d said Blaise Lempen, president &nbsp;of PEC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressemblem.ch\/pec-news\">https:\/\/www.pressemblem.ch\/pec-news<\/a>). Meanwhile,&nbsp;PEC\u2019s south and southeast Asia representative Nava Thakuria informed that India earlier lost three journalists (Mukesh Chandrakar, Raghavendra Vajpayee and Sahadev Dey) to assailants &nbsp;since 1 January this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) Geneva, 19 May 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety&nbsp; and rights body, expressed shock over the murder of another Indian &nbsp;journalist and demanded justice for the bereaved family of &nbsp;&nbsp;Dharmendra Singh Chauhan. The Haryana-based media person, who was associated with online media outlet named Fast News India, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}