{"id":113063,"date":"2021-03-29T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113063"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T22:56:50","slug":"two-arrested-in-jaffna-over-website-youtube-channel-promoting-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/29\/two-arrested-in-jaffna-over-website-youtube-channel-promoting-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested in Jaffna over website &#038; YouTube channel promoting LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LTTE\u0dba \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db0\u0db1\u0dba \u0dc0\u0db1 \u0d85\u0dba\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9a\u0da7\u0dba\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dc5 \u0d9a\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d87\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc5\u0dd4 \u0daf\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0d85\u0da9\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oxzvzdioFTk?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\n\n\n<p>The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has arrested two persons including a female in Jaffna for maintaining a website and YouTube channel allegedly promoting LTTE terrorist propaganda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said that the TID had conducted a special raid in respect of an office situated at Navalar Street in Jaffna this morning (29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raid has been conducted in order to trace a YouTube channel and a website that had been operated for months and those channels had promoted the LTTE ideology in the cyber space,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police Spokesman said that the YouTube channel and website had allegedly promoted the LTTE ideology, speeches of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran and the symbols of the LTTE terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the YouTube channel and website had created disharmony among the ethnic groups of Sri Lanka and that therefore a 35-year-old female and a 36-year-old male, who were running the office, have been arrested by the TID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to that 05 desktop computers and 05 laptop computers recovered from the said office have also been taken into custody, the DIG said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of the Gazette notification published in 2011related to the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the LTTE is a prescribed organization and promoting LTTE ideology and publishing articles in respect of LTTE terrorism or LTTE activities is strictly prohibited,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the arrested suspects are being brought to the TID\u2019s Colombo office and that further investigations are underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has arrested two persons including a female in Jaffna for maintaining a website and YouTube channel allegedly promoting LTTE terrorist propaganda.&nbsp; Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said that the TID had conducted a special raid in respect of an office situated at Navalar Street in Jaffna this morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113063","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=113063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}