{"id":1986,"date":"2017-10-20T18:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:04:46","slug":"a-group-led-by-northern-provincial-council-member-m-k-sivajilingam-met-president-maithripala-sirisena-today-and-discussed-the-political-prisoner-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/a-group-led-by-northern-provincial-council-member-m-k-sivajilingam-met-president-maithripala-sirisena-today-and-discussed-the-political-prisoner-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"A group led by Northern Provincial Council member M K Sivajilingam met President Maithripala Sirisena today and discussed the political prisoner issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President had assured Sivajilingam that once the Attorney General and the Justice Minister, who are current;y overseas, return to the island next week, he will discuss the issue with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena had last weekend confronted protesters in Jaffna who were demanding that Tamil political prisoners be released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The protesters staged a black flag protest along the street used by the President\u2019s convoy during his visit to Jaffna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil National Alliance members M. K. Sivajilingam and Suresh Premachandran were among those who took part in the protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena got down from his vehicle and attempted to calm the protesters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However Sivajilingam and Premachandran slammed the President over his failure to release the Tamil political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sivajilingam told the President that he has the authority to take action and secure the release of the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As the situation got tensed the President left and the Police placed a barricade preventing the protesters from getting close to the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President had assured Sivajilingam that once the Attorney General and the Justice Minister,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1987,"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-1986","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\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}