{"id":153067,"date":"2025-11-16T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153067"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:17:35","slug":"man-arrested-after-video-of-tourist-harassment-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/16\/man-arrested-after-video-of-tourist-harassment-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after video of tourist harassment goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Nov. 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Police have arrested a 23-year-old man sought over an incident involving a foreign tourist in Thirukkovil, after a video of the harassment went viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect, a resident of Kalawanchikudi, was taken into custody following a complaint lodged by a New Zealand national who had arrived in Sri Lanka on a tour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Tourist Police, the woman reported that on October 25, while travelling from Arugam Bay towards Passikudah, a young man behaved indecently during her excursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident gained widespread attention after the tourist posted a video online, showing the man exposing himself and attempting to sexually harass her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had reportedly stopped her tuk-tuk when the man approached her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, the visibly shaken tourist is heard expressing fear and disbelief over the encounter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said she had been filming her surroundings at the time and inadvertently captured the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Nov. 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Police have arrested a 23-year-old man sought over an incident involving a foreign tourist in Thirukkovil, after a video of the harassment went viral on social media. The suspect, a resident of Kalawanchikudi, was taken into custody following a complaint lodged by a New Zealand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153067","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=153067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153068,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153067\/revisions\/153068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}