{"id":6900,"date":"2019-07-24T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:57:06","slug":"meeting-between-hc-judges-and-un-envoy-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/meeting-between-hc-judges-and-un-envoy-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting between HC judges and UN envoy cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A meeting which was set to take place between a visiting UN Special Rapporteur and High Court judges was cancelled after concerns were raised in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaker Karu Jayasuriya told Parliament today that he had raised the issue with the Justice Ministry and Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a result the meeting was cancelled but the UN Special Rapporteur had met the Chuef Justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Opposition Parliamentarian Dinesh Gunawardena had told Parliament yesterday that the Foreign Ministry had sought to arrange a meeting between the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of freedom of association and peaceful assembly, Cl\u00e9ment Nyaletsossi Voule and top judges in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Opposition said that the Foreign Ministry had requested the Justice Ministry to arrange a meeting with the Chief Justice and judges of the Colombo High Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gunawardena said a foreigner cannot question the Chief Justice and other judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Voule is in Sri Lanka from 18 to 26 July 2019 to assess rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting which was set to take place between a visiting UN Special Rapporteur&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6901,"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-6900","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\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}