{"id":71921,"date":"2017-11-23T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71921"},"modified":"2017-11-23T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T21:53:08","slug":"joint-opposition-to-sue-police-officers-who-pursue-unlawful-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/23\/joint-opposition-to-sue-police-officers-who-pursue-unlawful-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Opposition to sue police officers who pursue unlawful orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/13\/manushi-silva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manushi Silva\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JO to sue police officers who pursue unlawful orders\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MOI0d34mlc?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<p>The Joint Opposition will initiate legal action, seeking personal compensation, against police officers who pursue unlawful orders, said former parliamentarian Professor G.L. Peiris.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a media briefing held at Colombo today (23), the former foreign minister alleged that there are attempts to arrest former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s arrest is him revealing about the constitution to the public through the\u00a0 formation of an organization named Eliya\u201d (light), alleged Peiris.<\/p>\n<p>This government is following a mechanism of imprisoning their opposition through intimidation by the use of FCID. In such a situation, the police officers are neglecting their duties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Manushi Silva\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition will initiate legal action, seeking personal compensation, against police officers who pursue unlawful orders, said former parliamentarian Professor G.L. Peiris. Addressing a media briefing held at Colombo today (23), the former foreign minister alleged that there are attempts to arrest former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The main reason for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security","category-terrorism","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71921","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=71921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}