{"id":40309,"date":"2015-05-12T22:52:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=40309"},"modified":"2015-05-12T22:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:52:36","slug":"consolation-assembly-held-to-pay-tribute-to-late-journalist-abdullah-mikdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=40309","title":{"rendered":"Consolation assembly held to pay tribute to late journalist Abdullah Mikdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Journalists&#8217; Union and family of Mikdad held a consolation gathering in tribute of late journalist Abdullah Mikdad, who had been abducted by armed terrorist groups in Adra Workers&#8217; city last year.<\/p>\n<p>A number of senior officials participated in the event , including Member of Regional Leadership of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party Khalaf al-Miftah, Syria\u2019s Grand Mufti Ahmad Badr eddin Hassoun, and other media, political and academic figures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Targeting Syrian scientists and journalists aim at striking culture, education and openness Syria is distinguished by, Mufti Hassoun said.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, chairman of Journalists Union Elias Murad said the Union is sorry for losing late Mikdad who was abducted by terrorists in Adra, adding &#8220;the terrorists have tried to force Mikdad to talk in front of the channels of bloodshed, but he preferred to die instead of betraying his homeland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>M.Nassr\/Mazen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Journalists&#8217; Union and family of Mikdad held a consolation gathering in tribute of late journalist Abdullah Mikdad, who had been abducted by armed terrorist groups in Adra Workers&#8217; city last year. A number of senior officials participated in the event , including Member of Regional Leadership of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party Khalaf &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,115,116,455],"tags":[5496,5498,5499,5497,2808,5501,5500],"class_list":["post-40309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-damascus","category-local","category-news-locals","category-governorates-news","tag-abdullah-mikdad","tag-adra","tag-al-miftah","tag-consolation","tag-hassoun","tag-journalist-union","tag-murad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}