{"id":7307,"date":"2019-10-10T04:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2019-10-10T04:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:05:26","slug":"investigations-into-death-threats-against-viyangoda-and-thenuwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/investigations-into-death-threats-against-viyangoda-and-thenuwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigations into death threats against Viyangoda and Thenuwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Investigations have commenced into the complaint filed by Prof. Chandragupta Thenuwara and Gamini Viyangoda to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) claiming that they have received death threats. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Prof Chandragupta Thenuwara and Gamini Viyangoda complain that they have been threatened following the Court of Appeal ruling to dismiss a petition filed by them challenging former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s Sri Lankan citizenship. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">They say they have lodged a complaint in this manner to protect themselves as hate speech and threats on social media are increasing against them. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">With the dismissal of the petition by the Court of Appeal on Friday (October 4), death threats aimed at the two activists started to appear in social media, they claimed. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The wave of hate speech began with Gotabhaya supporters in the court room erupting in applause when the three-member Court of Appeal bench unanimously rejected their petition. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Referring to the unethical behavior in a court room, Chairman of the three-member bench, Judge Yasantha Kodagoda said that if any lawyer is found to be involved, action will be taken against them. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">However, the wave of social media posts targeting Professor Chandragupta Thenuwara and journalist Gamini Viyangoda has grown to death threats calling for &#8220;white vans to take them&#8221; referring to Rajapaksa era abductions and disappearances. Some posts in Facebook suggested that the petitioners should not be killed but their limbs should be broken for them to suffer lifetime. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some others suggested that they should be taken by black vans if white vans not available to dispose them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations have commenced into the complaint filed by Prof. Chandragupta Thenuwara and Gamini Viyangoda&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7308,"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-7307","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\/7307","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=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}