{"id":5902,"date":"2019-04-04T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2019-04-04T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:55:34","slug":"writer-shakthika-sathkumara-who-wrote-short-story-about-sexual-abuse-in-a-buddhist-temple-arrested-by-police-and-remanded-due-to-complaint-lodged-by-buddhist-monks-from-polgahawela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/writer-shakthika-sathkumara-who-wrote-short-story-about-sexual-abuse-in-a-buddhist-temple-arrested-by-police-and-remanded-due-to-complaint-lodged-by-buddhist-monks-from-polgahawela\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Shakthika Sathkumara who wrote Short Story about Sexual Abuse in a Buddhist Temple arrested by Police and remanded due to complaint lodged by Buddhist Monks from Polgahawela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Shakthika Sathkumara, a Sri Lankan poet and writer, has been arrested by the police yesterday for insulting Buddhism in one of his short stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Polgaawela Magistrate has remanded the writer until April 09 when he was presented before the court last afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sathkumara was arrested by the police following a complaint lodged by a group of Buddhist monks in the Polgahawela area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The same group has also lodged a complaint with the Polgahawela Divisional Secretariat where Sathkumara is employed as a Development Officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sources close to him said the short story under question centres on a case of sexual abuse within a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Asian Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakthika Sathkumara, a Sri Lankan poet and writer, has been arrested by the police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5903,"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-5902","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\/5902","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=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}