{"id":81013,"date":"2018-09-15T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81013"},"modified":"2018-09-15T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T23:22:17","slug":"kuwaiti-couple-handed-jail-for-assaulting-sri-lankan-customs-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/15\/kuwaiti-couple-handed-jail-for-assaulting-sri-lankan-customs-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaiti couple handed jail for assaulting Sri Lankan customs officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry_title\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Kuwait Times<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>COLOMBO: A Kuwaiti man and woman convicted of assaulting customs officers at Sri Lanka\u2019s main international airport were handed a six-month jail sentence suspended for five years, an official said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A magistrate sentenced on Friday the 32-year-old woman and her 29-year-old male partner, who were also fined 138,000 rupees ($860).<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested trying to smuggle in a Burmese mastiff into the country in July without following quarantine procedures. The woman was caught on CCTV cameras assaulting customs officers who tried to stop them.<\/p>\n<p>Customs spokesman Vipula Minuwanpitiya said the pet dog was confiscated and later given back to the couple to be taken out of the country. \u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Kuwait Times COLOMBO: A Kuwaiti man and woman convicted of assaulting customs officers at Sri Lanka\u2019s main international airport were handed a six-month jail sentence suspended for five years, an official said yesterday. A magistrate sentenced on Friday the 32-year-old woman and her 29-year-old male partner, who were also fined 138,000 rupees ($860). They [&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-81013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81013","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=81013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}