{"id":64716,"date":"2017-03-30T02:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64716"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:46:42","slug":"weerawansa-concludes-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/30\/weerawansa-concludes-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Weerawansa concludes hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"newsDateStamp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Roosindu Peris\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">March 30, 2017\u00a0\u00a010:47 am<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\">National Freedom Front (NFF) leader MP Wimal Weerawansa has decided to end his hunger strike, according to MP Jayantha Samaraweera.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>He ended his protest fast after 9 days by drinking a glass of milk due to the requests made by several Buddhist monks, Samaraweera told Ada Derana.<\/p>\n<p>Weerawansa, who launched a hunger strike on March while in prison over the rejection of his bail applications, had been refusing food and was reportedly only drinking liquids.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted to the prisons hospital on March 26 due to his deteriorating health condition while he was transferred to the Colombo National Hospital yesterday (29).<\/p>\n<p>Weerawansa was arrested and remanded on charges of misusing state-owned vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39912\/weerawansa-concludes-hunger-strike-#sthash.whiH0jiR.dpuf<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weerawansa concludes hunger strike\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HGuhunKNXUQ?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roosindu Peris\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana March 30, 2017\u00a0\u00a010:47 am National Freedom Front (NFF) leader MP Wimal Weerawansa has decided to end his hunger strike, according to MP Jayantha Samaraweera. He ended his protest fast after 9 days by drinking a glass of milk due to the requests made by several Buddhist monks, Samaraweera told Ada Derana. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64716","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=64716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}