{"id":129057,"date":"2022-10-07T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129057"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:09:05","slug":"sri-lanka-top-court-allows-proceedings-against-former-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/07\/sri-lanka-top-court-allows-proceedings-against-former-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka top court allows proceedings against former president"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Khaleej Times<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It has also allowed trials against ex prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, finance minister and two central bank governors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s top court has granted permission for proceedings against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the rights group which filed the case against him said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also agreed to allow proceedings against the country&#8217;s former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, its former finance minister and two of its former central bank governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case, filed by rights group Transparency International, calls for accountability for the island nation&#8217;s leadership for its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Khaleej Times It has also allowed trials against ex prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, finance minister and two central bank governors Sri Lanka&#8217;s top court has granted permission for proceedings against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the rights group which filed the case against him said in a statement on Friday. The court also agreed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129057","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\/129057","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=129057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}