{"id":6067,"date":"2019-04-21T06:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2019-04-21T06:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:57:02","slug":"mullaitivu-journalist-arrested-over-navy-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mullaitivu-journalist-arrested-over-navy-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullaitivu journalist arrested over Navy complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A journalist based in Mullaitivu was arrested today over a complaint filed by the Navy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He was subsequently released on bail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil Guardian said that its Mullaitivu correspondent Shanmugam Thavaseelan was arrested a day after he was questioned by the Police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The journalist\u2019s lawyers argued that the allegations leading to his arrest were fabricated and part of a targeted campaign of harassment and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The reason given for the arrest was that he had assaulted and caused injury to the Navy officer during a protest staged by families of the missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist based in Mullaitivu was arrested today over a complaint filed by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6068,"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-6067","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\/6067","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=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}