{"id":69328,"date":"2017-08-31T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69328"},"modified":"2017-08-31T14:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:15:44","slug":"sri-lanka-releases-76-tamil-nadu-fishermen-as-sushma-swaraj-begins-colombo-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/31\/sri-lanka-releases-76-tamil-nadu-fishermen-as-sushma-swaraj-begins-colombo-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka releases 76 Tamil Nadu fishermen as Sushma Swaraj begins Colombo visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Courtesy FirstPost<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Rameswaram:<\/strong>\u00a0Seventy-six Tamil Nadu fishermen, arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in the island nation&#8217;s territorial waters, were\u00a0on Thursday ordered to be released by a Lankan court, police officials said in Rameswaram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3408462\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fishermen_reuters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3408462\" src=\"http:\/\/s1.firstpost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fishermen_reuters.jpg\" alt=\"Representational Image. Reuters\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image. Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Oorkavalthurai court set free the fishermen, lodged in a Jaffna jail following their arrest in separate incidents over three months this year, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Among those ordered to be released were 12 fishermen from Rameswaram, six from Mandapam, 46 from Pudukottai and eight from Nagapattinam.<\/p>\n<p>Rameswaram Fishermen&#8217;s Association President S Emirit said the fishermen are expected to reach Karaikal in a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Their release came on a day when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is visiting Colombo to participate in the two-day Indian Ocean Conference from Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fishermen Association sources said four fishermen are still lodged in Jaffna jail.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested and their two boats seized by the Sri Lankan Navy in separate incidents on Thursday for allegedly fishing in the island nation&#8217;s territorial waters, fisheries department\u00a0officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy FirstPost Rameswaram:\u00a0Seventy-six Tamil Nadu fishermen, arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in the island nation&#8217;s territorial waters, were\u00a0on Thursday ordered to be released by a Lankan court, police officials said in Rameswaram. Representational Image. Reuters The Oorkavalthurai court set free the fishermen, lodged in a Jaffna jail following their arrest in [&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-69328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69328","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=69328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}