{"id":1979,"date":"2017-10-18T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:07:05","slug":"political-prisoner-issue-raised-in-parliament-as-students-begin-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/political-prisoner-issue-raised-in-parliament-as-students-begin-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Political prisoner issue raised in Parliament as students begin fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The issue over Tamil political prisoners was raised in Parliament today as Jaffna university students began a hunger strike over the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian Selvam Adaikalanathan told Parliament that the Tamil political prisoners must be set free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that despite several assurances the Government has not taken steps to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jaffna university students began a hunger strike demanding a meeting with the President to discuss their concerns on the political prisoner issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several students are taking part in the hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue over Tamil political prisoners was raised in Parliament today as Jaffna university&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1980,"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-1979","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\/1979","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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}