{"id":13228,"date":"2021-12-21T06:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2021-12-21T06:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:55:45","slug":"journalist-nava-thakuria-bags-international-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=13228","title":{"rendered":"**  Journalist Nava Thakuria bags international award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has honoured Tehelka journalist for his relentless initiatives to safeguard the rights of media persons in the south Asian country and also for defending the press freedom in the region with an exemplary commitment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guwahati-based working journalist was awarded on 30th November 2021 remotely as it was difficult for him to reach Geneva because of the Covid-19 restrictions. Even a virtual interaction program with a group of journalists there was also cancelled at the last moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is the first time that the PEC rewards a journalist from India, the second-most populous country of the world. India has a strong democracy and a vibrant press. Last year however, a record number of 15 journalists were killed in India while six have been killed this year. Journalists are targeted documenting abuses, corruption, criminal activities,\u201d said Blaise Lempen, secretary-general of PEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has honoured Tehelka journalist for his relentless initiatives to safeguard the rights of media persons in the south Asian country and also for defending the press freedom in the region with an exemplary commitment.\u00a0 The Guwahati-based working journalist was awarded on 30th November 2021 remotely as it was difficult for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=13228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Journalist Nava Thakuria bags international award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13231,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}