{"id":7695,"date":"2019-12-07T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2019-12-07T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:59:48","slug":"sri-lankan-brigadier-found-guilty-by-uk-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankan-brigadier-found-guilty-by-uk-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan brigadier found guilty by UK court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A Sri Lankan brigadier who motioned death threats to Tamil protestors in London last year has been found guilty by a British court of violating the Public Order Act, after a protracted legal battle, reports said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Westminster Magistrate\u2019s Court upheld a previous ruling that Sri Lanka\u2019s Brigadier Priyanka Fernando \u201cis\u00a0 not\u00a0 protected\u00a0 by\u00a0 diplomatic\u00a0 immunity\u201d, despite pleas made by Sri Lanka\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI\u00a0 have\u00a0 no\u00a0 doubt\u00a0 that\u00a0 the\u00a0 cut-throat\u00a0 gestures\u00a0 were\u00a0 made\u00a0 on\u00a0 4th\u00a0 February\u00a0 2018,\u201d said Chief\u00a0 Magistrate\u00a0 Emma\u00a0 Arbuthnot in her ruling today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sri Lankan brigadier who motioned death threats to Tamil protestors in London last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7696,"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-7695","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\/7695","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=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}