{"id":50570,"date":"2015-12-27T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T01:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50570"},"modified":"2015-12-27T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T01:31:56","slug":"enrique-iglesias-sri-lankas-president-says-gig-organisers-should-be-whipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/27\/enrique-iglesias-sri-lankas-president-says-gig-organisers-should-be-whipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrique Iglesias: Sri Lanka&#8217;s president says gig organisers &#8216;should be whipped&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\" \"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Independent (UK)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\" \">President Maithripala Sirisena said women running on stage to kiss the singer and throwing their underwear at him was &#8216;most uncivilised&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s president\u00a0says the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias gig should be whipped, as punishment over the behaviour of some female fans.<\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena said local women running on stage to kiss the singer and throwing their underwear at him during a concert in Colombo on 20 December\u00a0was &#8220;most uncivilised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is most uncivilised behaviour that goes against our culture,&#8221; President Sirisena told a public meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t advocate that these uncivilised women who removed their brassieres should be beaten with toxic stingray tails, but those who organised such an event should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whipping with &#8220;toxic stingray tails&#8221; refers to an ancient punishment reserved for hardened criminals in medieval Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Public displays of affection are frowned upon in conservative Sri Lankan society.<\/p>\n<p>Police are known to have arrested couples for kissing in public parks.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was part of the Latin pop star&#8217;s Love and Sex world tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Independent (UK) President Maithripala Sirisena said women running on stage to kiss the singer and throwing their underwear at him was &#8216;most uncivilised&#8217; Sri Lanka&#8217;s president\u00a0says the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias gig should be whipped, as punishment over the behaviour of some female fans. President Maithripala Sirisena said local women running on stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50570","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=50570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}