{"id":10455,"date":"2021-02-10T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2021-02-10T06:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:13:01","slug":"the-united-states-us-ambassador-to-sri-lanka-has-questioned-the-poor-coverage-of-the-pottuvil-to-point-pedro-p2p-protest-by-the-by-colombo-based-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/the-united-states-us-ambassador-to-sri-lanka-has-questioned-the-poor-coverage-of-the-pottuvil-to-point-pedro-p2p-protest-by-the-by-colombo-based-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States (US) Ambassador to Sri Lanka has questioned the poor coverage of the Pottuvil to Point Pedro (P2P) protest by the by Colombo-based media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz tweeted saying a peaceful protest is an important right in any democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also said that significant and legitimate concerns should be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI saw Tamil media coverage of the march from Pottuvil to Point Pedro and wondered why it was not more widely covered by Colombo-based media?\u201d the Ambassador tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamils in the North-East staged the massive protest last week to drawn attention to several of their demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Minster of Public Security, Law and Order Sarath Weerasekera said that legal action is to be taken against the protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on a private television station, Weerasekera said that the vehicles used by the protesters will also be confiscated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister had already ordered special security provided to Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian M.A Sumanthiran to be withdrawn after he had participated in the protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz tweeted saying a peaceful protest is an important right in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}