{"id":12666,"date":"2023-05-31T06:57:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12666"},"modified":"2023-05-31T06:57:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:57:54","slug":"monk-remanded-over-statement-threatening-religious-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/monk-remanded-over-statement-threatening-religious-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk remanded over statement threatening religious harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist monk has been remanded for making statements that could pose a threat to religious harmony.<\/p>\n<p>The Venerable Rajangane Saddharathana Thero was arrested in Anuradhapura for allegedly making statements that could disrupt religious harmony.<\/p>\n<p>He was produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court and ordered to be remanded until 07 June.<\/p>\n<p>The monk was reportedly arrested over a complaint made by another monk, the Venerable Pahiyangala Ananda Sagara Thero.<\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had recently arrested\u00a0stand-up comedian Nathasha Edirisooriya for\u00a0allegedly making comments disrespectful to Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Jerome Fernando is also being investigated for making comments disrespectful to Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist monk has been remanded for making statements that could pose a threat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12666","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=12666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12668,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12666\/revisions\/12668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}