{"id":9695,"date":"2020-09-04T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:19:59","slug":"former-hrc-member-sends-letter-of-demand-to-uk-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/former-hrc-member-sends-letter-of-demand-to-uk-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Former HRC member sends letter of demand to UK TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambika Satkunanathan, a former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has sent a Letter of Demand (LoD) to the London based television network IBC Tamil owned by Baskaran Kandiah, the co-founder of Lebara mobile, through her legal representative, Attorney-at-law Ms. Lakshika Bakmiwewa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Letter of Demand is in relation to a dramatised political TV programme telecast in July, in which Ms. Satkunanathan states she was portrayed in a derogatory manner that causes harm to her reputation and is defamatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While acknowledging the right to engage in political satire, Ms. Satkunanathan alleges that the portrayal was&nbsp; sexist and misogynist and hence is an encroachment of her rights. She further states that IBC Tamil\u2019s actions are a blatant disregard of media ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms. Satkunanathan has demanded damages of GBP 5000,000 and an apology. Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambika Satkunanathan, a former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}