{"id":756,"date":"2014-02-13T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/excelsior-photojournalist-beaten-by-forces-in-shopian\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:09:00","slug":"excelsior-photojournalist-beaten-by-forces-in-shopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Excelsior photojournalist \u2018beaten\u2019 by forces in Shopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> &nbsp;A photojournalist working with a Jammu based English daily on Thursday was allegedly assaulted by forces in Pinjoora area of south Kashmir\u2019s district.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1622121_574527075950977_374706242_n.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1622121_574527075950977_374706242_n.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports reaching GNS said that Excelsior photojournalist Sajad Ahmad Dar, who was returning to Anantnag district after covering a gun-battle between militants and the forces in Pinjoora area of Shopian, was allegedly beaten up and his cameras damaged by the CRPF troopers and police, when the area was witnessing massive demonstrations against the militants killings. Due to the alleged beating, Dar also suffered injuries in his hand.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was returning from the encounter site when the forces grabbed me and beat me mercilessly. They also damaged my cameras,\u201d Dar told GNS.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pertinently, two Hizb-ul Mujahideen militants were killed in a fierce encounter with army\u2019s 44 RR and SOG of police in Pinjoora triggering off strong anti-India protests. At least nine people were injured in the violent clashes that continued till late evening. (GNS)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: &nbsp;A photojournalist working with a Jammu based English daily on Thursday was allegedly assaulted by forces in Pinjoora area of south Kashmir\u2019s district. Reports reaching GNS said that Excelsior photojournalist Sajad Ahmad Dar, who was returning to Anantnag district after covering a gun-battle between militants and the forces in Pinjoora area of Shopian, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}