{"id":18203,"date":"2020-05-14T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/14\/family-of-pakistani-journalist-await-truth-of-his-death-in-sweden"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:10:04","slug":"family-of-pakistani-journalist-await-truth-of-his-death-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18203","title":{"rendered":"Family of Pakistani journalist await truth of his death in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sajid Hussain\u2019s body was found in a river abroad after his work earned him death threats at home<\/p>\n<p>It was late at night on 30 April and Wajid Hussain was still in his office when the phone rang. A voice on the other end, 5,000 miles away from him in Pakistan, brought news that felt like a punch to the stomach: police in the Swedish city of Uppsala confirmed that a body found in a river a week before was that of his older brother, the exiled journalist Sajid Hussain. Sajid had been missing for almost two months.<\/p>\n<p>According to Uppsala police, while an autopsy has been carried out, the exact cause of Sajid\u2019s death has yet to be determined. \u201cInitially there was a suspicion of him being murdered,\u201d said Karin Rosander, a spokesperson for Uppsala police. \u201cThose suspicions have now lessened but we have nothing definite right now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/14\/family-of-pakistani-journalist-await-truth-of-his-death-in-sweden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sajid Hussain\u2019s body was found in a river abroad after his work earned him death threats at homeIt was late at night on 30 April and Wajid Hussain was still in his office when the phone rang. A voice on the other end, 5,000 miles away from him in Pakis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,669,238,60,61,849,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sweden","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}