{"id":3083,"date":"2018-05-07T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2018-05-07T18:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:59:58","slug":"criminalising-hate-speech-govts-minority-allies-seek-written-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/criminalising-hate-speech-govts-minority-allies-seek-written-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminalising Hate Speech: Govt&#8217;s minority allies seek written assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Political parties representing the minority communities in the ruling coalition are seeking a written assurance from the government to conduct the provincial council elections without further delay, far-reaching constitutional amendments and the criminalisation of hate speech, a minister said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil Progressive Party Leader and Minister, Mano Ganesan told Daily Mirror that parties such as the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) would seek a written agreement from the government in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The minister said any constitutional amendment should cover the executive presidency, electoral reforms and political solution to the North and the East as a whole and that these parties would urge the government to amend the Penal Code to criminalize hate speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Commenting on the provincial council elections, he said these elections should be conducted without further delay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThey should be conducted under the old system of proportional representation. After May Day we will submit our request to the government,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political parties representing the minority communities in the ruling coalition are seeking a written&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3084,"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-3083","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\/3083","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=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}