{"id":6636,"date":"2019-06-17T03:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T03:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2019-06-17T03:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T03:55:28","slug":"government-accuses-president-of-misusing-iccpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/government-accuses-president-of-misusing-iccpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Government accuses President of misusing ICCPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Government has accused President Maithripala Sirisena of misusing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Non-cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution, Dr. Harsha De Silva said that President Sirisena is openly discriminating citizens misusing ICCPR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that award-winning author and poet Shakthika Sathkumara, and Fathima Nushra Zarook have been arrested on \u201cidiotic charges\u201d and now a journalist is being threatened on the same charges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that journalists are being threatened while real racists spreading violence against minorities are flying high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Free Media Movements had said that the Police organized crime division is trying to prosecute Kusal Perera, a senior journalist who wrote a column in the Daily Mirror newspaper over recent anti-Muslim violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cKusal Perera, has been engaged in journalism for a long time in both the Sinhala and English media and has been recognized as a socially responsible professional journalist both locally and internationally,\u201d the Free Media Movement said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Free media Movement points out that this effort by the Police is a serious threat to the freedom of expression and media and the pursuance of legal action under the ICCPR Act which includes provision to disallow bail, based on a complaint of an individual regarding the article published by a veteran journalist in a recognized print media, is a dangerous precedent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has accused President Maithripala Sirisena of misusing the International Covenant on Civil&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6637,"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-6636","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\/6636","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=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}