{"id":142660,"date":"2024-06-26T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142660"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:56:22","slug":"judges-and-prisoners-are-human-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/26\/judges-and-prisoners-are-human-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges (and prisoners) are human too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>C. Wijeyawickrema<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In Sri Lanka higher courts are under attack for using contempt\u00a0 of court as a sword\u00a0making everybody fearful to comment about\u00a0court decisions which appear manifestly defective. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka is getting funds from USAID to sanitize the judicial system, and its\u00a0officers now face accusations of misappropriation of dollar donations received for that purpose. The system change that all are wanting must include the judicial apparatus\u00a0in Sri Lanka. It cannot be a pillar of democracy unless this happens.\u00a0 See what\u00a0is happening in the USA now with regard\u00a0to its Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/judges-rebel-against-the-supreme-court\/ar-BB1oV8ZZ?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=fa482910f8e84c6988f9879f2cceb469&amp;ei=55\">Judges Rebel Against the Supreme Court (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. Wijeyawickrema In Sri Lanka higher courts are under attack for using contempt\u00a0 of court as a sword\u00a0making everybody fearful to comment about\u00a0court decisions which appear manifestly defective. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka is getting funds from USAID to sanitize the judicial system, and its\u00a0officers now face accusations of misappropriation of dollar donations received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-wijeyawickrema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142660","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=142660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}