{"id":5720,"date":"2019-03-15T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:30:47","slug":"fourteen-chinese-arrested-in-galle-jailed-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/fourteen-chinese-arrested-in-galle-jailed-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Chinese arrested in Galle jailed for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fourteen Chinese nationals arrested in Galle recently for violating local visa laws have been ordered to be jailed for a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 14 Chinese nationals were produced in court today and the Galle Chief Magistrate ordered that they be jailed for a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They were also imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chinese nationals had been employed at a construction site in Galle without valid work visas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They were arrested last month after being found to have been employed while in the country on tourist visas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chinese nationals were produced in court and remanded till today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Magistrate warned that if they fail to pay the fine the jail term will be extended by a month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen Chinese nationals arrested in Galle recently for violating local visa laws have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5721,"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-5720","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\/5720","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=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}