{"id":9954,"date":"2020-10-18T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:50:04","slug":"journalist-frederica-jansz-obtains-us-citizenship-after-being-forced-to-flee-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/journalist-frederica-jansz-obtains-us-citizenship-after-being-forced-to-flee-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Frederica Jansz obtains US citizenship after being forced to flee Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist Frederica Jansz has obtained US citizenship after being forced to flee Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Facebook post, Jansz said that she and her family pledged allegiance to the United States this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat a tumultuous journey it has been. It was indeed a bittersweet moment. On the one hand I felt a huge sense of relief and joy, on the other, there was sadness. Pushed out, shunned, and persecuted by my birth country, the country that I loved and never wanted to leave, America reached out, embracing the boys and me. In this country, I found peace and happiness. Above all, my faith in human nature was restored. Thank you America,\u201d she said in her Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July 2012 she accused then Defence Secretary now President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of launching an obscene tirade against her on the telephone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frederica Jansz was later forced to leave The Sunday Leader newspaper after refusing to curb her writing style or compromise her credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sunday Leader newspaper has since been closed after facing financial constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Frederica Jansz has obtained US citizenship after being forced to flee Sri Lanka.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9955,"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-9954","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\/9954","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=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}