{"id":100708,"date":"2020-04-03T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100708"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:50:09","slug":"over-11000-arrested-for-violating-curfew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/03\/over-11000-arrested-for-violating-curfew\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 11,000 arrested for violating curfew"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Police said that 289 individuals have been arrested for violating the curfew within six hours ending at 12 noon today (03).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 70 vehicles have also been taken into custody during this time period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police Media Unit said that the total arrests made so far for curfew violations stands at 11,019 and that 2,727 vehicles have also been taken into custody.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka Police had previously warned of strict legal action against people caught violating the countrywide curfew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will be immediately arrested, even without a warrant, and that police bail will not be granted for them, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police also noted that none of the vehicles taken into custody will be released back to their respective owners, until the prevailing Coronavirus threat is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government imposed an island-wide curfew with the intention of minimizing public movement in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Police said that 289 individuals have been arrested for violating the curfew within six hours ending at 12 noon today (03). A total of 70 vehicles have also been taken into custody during this time period.&nbsp; The Police Media Unit said that the total arrests made so far for curfew violations stands at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}