{"id":12208,"date":"2022-11-12T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12208"},"modified":"2022-11-12T19:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:47:35","slug":"un-envoy-speaks-to-protesters-near-colombo-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/un-envoy-speaks-to-protesters-near-colombo-office\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>UN envoy speaks to protesters near Colombo office<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer-Hamdy spoke to protesters who had gathered outside the UN compound in Colombo on Friday and also accepted a petition which they presented to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protest was staged against the arrest of student activist Wasantha Mudalige and against the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanaa Singer-Hamdy had arrived at the gate when the protest was underway and got out of her vehicle and spoke to the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said that she had no objections to the protest as long as it was peaceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The envoy also said that she was aware of the demands and concerns of the protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protesters later handed over a petition to Hanaa Singer-Hamdy, which she accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer-Hamdy spoke to protesters who had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12209,"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-12208","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\/12208","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=12208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12210,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions\/12210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}