{"id":10736,"date":"2021-04-24T04:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2021-04-24T04:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:54:05","slug":"rishad-bathiudeen-and-his-brother-riyadh-bathiudeen-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/rishad-bathiudeen-and-his-brother-riyadh-bathiudeen-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother Riyadh Bathiudeen arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposition Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother Riyadh Bathiudeen have been arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both were arrested this morning by the Criminal Investigations Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe CID has been standing outside my house in Boudhaloka Mawatha since 1.30 am today attempting to arrest me without a charge. They have already arrested my brother. I have been in Parliament, and have cooperated with all lawful authorities until now. This is unjust,\u201d Rishad Bathiudeen tweeted just prior to his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police Spokesman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said that they were arrested early this morning at their respective residences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that they were arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act over allegations of aiding and abetting the suicide bombers responsible for the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother Riyadh Bathiudeen have been arrested in connection&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10737,"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-10736","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\/10736","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=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}