{"id":7408,"date":"2019-10-24T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T08:41:12","slug":"us-court-dismisses-lawsuit-against-gotabhaya-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/us-court-dismisses-lawsuit-against-gotabhaya-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"US court dismisses lawsuit against Gotabhaya Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">A United States court on Monday dismissed a law suit filed against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka&#8217;s presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the brother of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The case has been filed by Ahimsa Wickremetunga, the daughter of murdered editor Lasantha Wickremetunga in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was defense chief when Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was ambushed and killed near the Ratmalana High Security Zone on the morning of January 8, 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">On Monday, the California court has announced that it had granted Rajapaksa&#8217;s motion to dismiss the lawsuit on grounds that the court lacks the jurisdiction to consider Wickrematunge&#8217;s claims. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The San Francisco-based human rights legal group Center for Justice and Accountability, which assisted Wickrematunge in filing the lawsuit in April, said the court viewed that Rajapaksa is entitled to common law foreign official immunity for the acts that are alleged &#8211; acts of torture, extrajudicial killing, and crimes against humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States court on Monday dismissed a law suit filed against Gotabaya Rajapaksa,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7409,"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-7408","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\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}