{"id":2540,"date":"2017-07-26T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T08:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2017-07-26T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T08:01:15","slug":"aej-bulgaria-condemns-the-attack-against-tv-journalist-ivo-nikodimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/aej-bulgaria-condemns-the-attack-against-tv-journalist-ivo-nikodimov\/","title":{"rendered":"AEJ-Bulgaria Condemns the Attack Against TV Journalist Ivo Nikodimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ivo-nikodimov1-422329-360x202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2541\" alt=\"ivo-nikodimov1-422329-360x202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ivo-nikodimov1-422329-360x202.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>The Association of European Journalists \u2013 Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) condemns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnt.bg\/bg\/a\/medii-i-mediyni-organizatsii-sprichastni-s-ivo-nikodimov\" target=\"_blank\">the attack<\/a> against the journalist Ivo Nikodimov, who hosts the morning talk show of the Bulgarian National Television (BNT).<br \/>\nNikodimov was attacked by three people in a central park in Sofia on Tuesday. The attackers escaped immediately. Although the reasons for the attack remain unknown, it is extremely alarming that a prominent TV journalist can be subjected to aggression in broad daylight.<br \/>\nWe call on the authorities to take the necessary measures to identify the perpetrators of this assault.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, this is yet another incident in the past few days which calls into question citizens\u2019 safety. How can people feel safe and protected when journalists of the public service media and representatives of state institutions, such as notaries, are attacked just a few meters away from their workplaces?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Bulgarian National Television (BNT)<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikodimov was attacked by three people in a central park in Sofia earlier on Tuesday. The attackers escaped immediately. Although the reasons for the attack remain unknown, it is extremely alarming that a prominent TV journalist can be subjected to aggression in broad daylight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,972,965,967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-from-aej-bulgaria","category-latest-news","category-media-freedom","category-positions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}