{"id":22425,"date":"2011-04-26T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:42:59","slug":"sri-lanka-journalist-arrested-for-defaming-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22425","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Journalist arrested for defaming court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Monday (25 April) arrested a journalist working for the independent website, Lanka eNews. Shantha Wijeysooria was <a title=\"CPJ: Another Lanka eNews journalist arrested\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/04\/another-lanka-enews-journalist-arrested.php\" target=\"_blank\">arrested at the website\u2019s offices <\/a>in Colombo for alleged contempt of court. The charges relate to an April 19 article which allegedly <a title=\"Sri Lanka Daily News: LankaeNews journalist arrested \" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/2011\/04\/26\/sec01.asp\" target=\"_blank\">defamed the court\u2019s honour<\/a> by suggesting that it was holding two suspects in custody in contravention of the attorney general&#8217;s written order to release them. The paper issued an apology on 22 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Monday (25 April) arrested a journalist working for the independent website, Lanka eNews. Shantha Wijeysooria was arrested at the website\u2019s offices in Colombo for alleged contempt of court. The charges relate to an April 19 article which allegedly defamed the court\u2019s honour by suggesting that it was holding two suspects in custody in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[241,3310,7392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79212,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/79212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}