{"id":86665,"date":"2019-03-22T17:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86665"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:28:28","slug":"14-chinese-illegals-jailed-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/22\/14-chinese-illegals-jailed-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Chinese illegals jailed in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Standard<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Fourteen Chinese construction workers who were in Sri Lanka without a valid employment visa have been sentenced to jail for a year and fined Rs 50,000 (1,881 yuan) each by a Magistrates&#8217; Court in the southern coastal city of Galle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese had arrived Colombo on one-month tourist visas. They were arrested after their tourist visas had lapsed and were working in a hotel project in the southern city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"899\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/harbour.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/harbour.jpg 899w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/harbour-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/harbour-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects were arrested on March 2 and remanded for two weeks before they were sentenced om March 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court ordered that the Chinese illegals be deported after they finish serving their jail terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Standard Fourteen Chinese construction workers who were in Sri Lanka without a valid employment visa have been sentenced to jail for a year and fined Rs 50,000 (1,881 yuan) each by a Magistrates&#8217; Court in the southern coastal city of Galle. The Chinese had arrived Colombo on one-month tourist visas. They were arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86665","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=86665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}