{"id":11850,"date":"2019-12-07T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/dec\/06\/sri-lankan-official-fined-over-throat-slitting-gestures-in-london"},"modified":"2019-12-07T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:00:46","slug":"sri-lankan-official-fined-over-throat-slitting-gestures-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11850","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan official fined over throat-slitting gestures in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brigadier Priyanka Fernando convicted of public order offences in private prosecution<\/p>\n<p>A senior member of the Sri Lankan military has been convicted of public order offences in London and fined thousands of pounds after a court ruled he is not protected by diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/01\/uk-arrest-warrant-for-sri-lanka-attache-over-throat-cut-gestures-revoked\">Brigadier Priyanka Fernando<\/a> was filmed making throat-slitting gestures towards Tamil protesters outside the Sri Lankan high commission in London on 4 February 2018. The demonstrators were highlighting concerns about human rights violations against Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil minority. Footage of the incident went viral.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/dec\/06\/sri-lankan-official-fined-over-throat-slitting-gestures-in-london\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigadier Priyanka Fernando convicted of public order offences in private prosecutionA senior member of the Sri Lankan military has been convicted of public order offences in London and fined thousands of pounds after a court ruled he is not protected &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[983,215,61,674,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-london","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}