{"id":5063,"date":"2019-01-06T05:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T05:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2019-01-06T05:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T05:21:33","slug":"civil-society-organizations-in-sri-lanka-protest-demanding-government-to-prevent-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/civil-society-organizations-in-sri-lanka-protest-demanding-government-to-prevent-animal-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka protest demanding government to prevent animal cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka yesterday staged a protest in front of the Prime Minister&#8217;s official residence Temple Trees demanding the government to take measures to prevent cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The protesters urged the government to enforce the law against the perpetrators of animal abuse including the suspect in the recent burning of a pet dog in Negombo and tighten the existing laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Civil society organizations also handed over a memorandum of their demands to the Public Relations Division of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A 38-year-old man was arrested in Periyamulla today for allegedly burning and inhumanely killing a pet Labrador dog at a house in Koppera Junction in Negombo on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka yesterday staged a protest in front of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5064,"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-5063","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\/5063","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=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}