{"id":49605,"date":"2022-10-24T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/24\/pakistani-journalist-arshad-sharifk-illed-by-police-in-kenya-was-case-of-mistaken-identity"},"modified":"2022-10-24T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:53:14","slug":"pakistani-journalist-killed-by-police-in-kenya-was-case-of-mistaken-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49605","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani journalist killed by police in Kenya \u2018was case of mistaken identity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say Arshad Sharif  was shot after his car failed to halt at a roadblock near Nairobi<\/p>\n<p>A senior Pakistani journalist living in hiding in Kenya was shot and killed by police after the car he was in sped up instead of stopping at a roadblock near Nairobi, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it was a case of \u201cmistaken identity\u201d that occurred during a search for a similar car involved in a case of child abduction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/24\/pakistani-journalist-arshad-sharifk-illed-by-police-in-kenya-was-case-of-mistaken-identity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say Arshad Sharif  was shot after his car failed to halt at a roadblock near NairobiA senior Pakistani journalist living in hiding in Kenya was shot and killed by police after the car he was in sped up instead of stopping at a roadblock near Nai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[401,669,1086,238,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-journalist-safety","category-kenya","category-media","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/49605","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49605\/revisions\/49606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}