{"id":127372,"date":"2022-07-27T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127372"},"modified":"2022-07-27T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:15:55","slug":"dhaniz-ali-arrested-for-forcibly-entering-state-media-institute-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/27\/dhaniz-ali-arrested-for-forcibly-entering-state-media-institute-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhaniz Ali arrested for forcibly entering state media institute remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dhaniz Ali, the man who was arrested last night while trying to leave for Dubai on a flight from the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) has been remanded until the 05th of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old, a resident of Webada in Kurunegala, was taken into custody in connection with the forcible entry to Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and attempt to disrupt telecasts on July 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 13, a group of protesters including Dhaniz Alia forced their way into the state-owned media institute, demanding that only anti-government protests-related news be broadcast thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the protesters then appeared on a live interview, after which the channel suspended its live and recorded telecasts for brief period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police later initiated investigations into the incident to identify the protesters in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement issued by the police, the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court had previously issued a warrant on Ali for failing to appear before the court over a case filed against a protest staged in front of the Finance Ministry on June 20, when a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met with a group of ministerial officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, he had been released on bail by the court over a case against alleged damaged caused to public property during a demonstration staged opposite the Police Headquarters on June 09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Dhaniz Ali, the man who was arrested last night while trying to leave for Dubai on a flight from the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) has been remanded until the 05th of August. He was produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court earlier today. The 31-year-old, a resident of Webada in Kurunegala, was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127372","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=127372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}