{"id":6366,"date":"2019-05-20T05:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2019-05-20T05:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:40:30","slug":"president-visits-gnanasara-thera-at-prison-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-visits-gnanasara-thera-at-prison-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"President visits Gnanasara Thera at Prison Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena has met Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Ven. Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thera at the Welikada Prison Hospital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sources said that the President had visited the prelate at the Prison Hospital after attending a ceremony held at the Welikada Prison to grant a presidential pardon for 762 inmates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, Ven. Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thera was not among the list of persons who were granted presidential pardon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sources said MP Thilanga Sumathipala, Northern Province Governor, Suresh Raghavan, and the Prisons Commissioner General had accompanied the President to visit Gnanasara Thera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was reported that the President and the prelate had a discussion which lasted about ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, it is learnt that no decision was reportedly taken during the meeting to release the monk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ven. Gnanasara Thera had been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment to be served in six years for contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena has met Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Ven. Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thera&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6367,"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-6366","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\/6366","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=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}