{"id":132327,"date":"2023-02-20T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132327"},"modified":"2023-02-20T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T00:11:58","slug":"police-fire-tear-gas-at-sjb-protest-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/02\/20\/police-fire-tear-gas-at-sjb-protest-in-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police fire tear gas at SJB protest in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a protest march organized by the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) near Technical Junction in Maradana, a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest march had been organized by the SJB against the alleged attempts by the government to postpone the 2023 Local Government Election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0dc4 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0dc3\u0dd2 \u0db8\u0dd0\u0daf \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc5\u0db9\u0da7 \u0d86 \u0dc3\u0da2\u0db6\u0dba  &quot;\u0d85\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dca\u0daf\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbb\u0da7 \u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0db1\u0dba \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda \u0d85\u0db4\u0dd2&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2Nu188yPmw?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>Meanwhile Olcott Mawatha in Pettah, Colombo has been closed off completely by the police due to the protest march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the police had urged motorists to use alternative routes in order to avoid traffic congestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest has been organized by the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) protesting against postponing the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the Colombo Fort Magistrate earlier today issued an order preventing several Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs from holding protest demonstrations, while causing inconvenience to pedestrians or vehicular traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order also prevents the protestors from entering the President\u2019s Office, the President\u2019s House, the Finance Ministry premises or the Galle Face area, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court order was issued following a request made by Fort Police pertaining to the protest march planned by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a protest march organized by the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) near Technical Junction in Maradana, a short while ago. The protest march had been organized by the SJB against the alleged attempts by the government to postpone the 2023 Local Government Election.&nbsp; Meanwhile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132327","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=132327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}