{"id":102247,"date":"2020-05-13T14:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102247"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:05:32","slug":"allegations-of-a-racist-statement-from-presidents-counsel-ali-shabri-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/13\/allegations-of-a-racist-statement-from-presidents-counsel-ali-shabri-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegations of a racist  statement from President&#8217;s Counsel Ali Shabri (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Organization and the &#8216;Nawa Sinhala&#8217; Organization allege that President&#8217;s Counsel Ali Shabri had made a racist statement expressing his views to Al Jazeera International News Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They made these comments at two press conference held today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We contacted President&#8217;s Counsel Ali Sabri regarding these allegations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d85\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0dc3\u0db6\u0dca\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dba\u0db1\u0dd4 \u0dad\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca\u0daf ? - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sG7nOIDgNHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Organization and the &#8216;Nawa Sinhala&#8217; Organization allege that President&#8217;s Counsel Ali Shabri had made a racist statement expressing his views to Al Jazeera International News Service. They made these comments at two press conference held today. We contacted President&#8217;s Counsel Ali Sabri regarding these allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102247","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=102247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}