{
  "id": 1414228,
  "title": "Calls for UK inquiry into ‘hounding’ of former Cambridge academic",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/calls-for-uk-inquiry-into-hounding-of-former-cambridge-academic",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T02:22:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2023351/calls-for-uk-inquiry-into-hounding-of-former-cambridge-academic"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "LONDON: More than 31,000 people, including several MPs, have signed a petition urging UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to hold a public inquiry into alleged media harassment of the late academic Jason Arday, the organisers said on Sunday. The petition was launched by the Good Law Project activist group after Arday, who was appointed three years ago as the youngest-ever black professor at Cambridge…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Malaysiakini",
        "title": "'Vicious witch hunt': Calls grow for inquiry into media scrutiny of late Cambridge professor",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/vicious-witch-hunt-calls-grow-for-inquiry-into-media-scrutiny-of-late",
        "published": "2026-08-17T03:28:44.000Z"
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    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}