{"id":11217,"date":"2021-09-12T02:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2021-09-12T02:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T02:52:47","slug":"grant-presidential-amnesty-to-ranjan-cbk-requests-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/grant-presidential-amnesty-to-ranjan-cbk-requests-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant presidential amnesty to Ranjan: CBK requests President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former President Chandrika Kumaratunge has requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to consider giving presidential pardon to imprisoned former MP Ranjan Ramanayake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter to the President, she said Ramanayake is a person who is genuinely working towards the betterment of the helpless people even by spending his own funds as an artiste, politician and a social worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As you granted presidential pardon to several people who were convicted for grave offences with mercy, I believe that you will accept the fact that it is unfortunate for Ranjan Ramanayake to undergo immense suffering for a charge that is not so serious,&#8221; she said in the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms. Kumaratunge said she was appealing to the President, as a senior citizen of this country and as a former Head of State, to be kind enough to grant Presidential amnesty to Ramanayake, who was in jail for nearly eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Chandrika Kumaratunge has requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to consider giving presidential pardon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11218,"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-11217","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\/11217","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=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11219,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions\/11219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}