{"id":7535,"date":"2019-11-15T03:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2019-11-15T03:34:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:34:54","slug":"tna-mp-sumanthiran-requests-investigation-into-false-news-reported-by-three-leading-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tna-mp-sumanthiran-requests-investigation-into-false-news-reported-by-three-leading-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA MP Sumanthiran requests investigation into false news reported by three leading newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Media Spokesperson parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran has requested the Election Commission and the Inspector General of Police to investigate into a news report published by three newspapers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Derana Aruna on 12th November, Ceylon Today and Mawbima on 13th November have published news reports claiming that MP Sumanthiran has made a statement to the effect that the &#8220;Tamil people should vote for Sajith Premadasa in order to defeat the Sinhalese people in the South.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">MP Sumanthiran has been severely criticized on social media for the purported statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">MP Sumanthiran unequivocally denying making such a statement has said that the reports are blatant falsehood and requested through legal counsel to open a criminal investigation of an offence under Section 3 of the International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights (ICCPR) Act, No. 56 of 2007. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">&#8220;These false reports are a propagation of racial hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, which amounts to an offence under the ICCPR Act.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The MP requested the Election Commission and the IGP to immediately investigate the matter and take steps according to law including reporting facts to a Magistrate and apprehending those responsible.<\/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>Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Media Spokesperson parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran has requested the Election Commission&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7536,"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-7535","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\/7535","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=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}