{"id":148150,"date":"2025-02-21T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148150"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:20:11","slug":"sajith-urges-govt-to-protect-judges-journalists-and-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/21\/sajith-urges-govt-to-protect-judges-journalists-and-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith urges govt. to protect judges, journalists and public"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/island.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sajith-18-696x510-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sajith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on the government to ensure increased security for judges, as well as the public, and especially journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premadasa said that protection must be given to journalists such as Chamuditha Samarawickrama acing threats at present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to Tuesday\u2019s shooting inside a courthouse, the Opposition Leader said:&nbsp;I request the government not to withdraw security provided to judges. I also request them to make more efforts to ensure public safety,\u201d he&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island Sajith Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on the government to ensure increased security for judges, as well as the public, and especially journalists. Premadasa said that protection must be given to journalists such as Chamuditha Samarawickrama acing threats at present. Referring to Tuesday\u2019s shooting inside a courthouse, the Opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-law-order","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148150","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=148150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}