{"id":43181,"date":"2022-04-02T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/02\/sri-lanka-president-declares-public-emergency-after-protests-against-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2022-04-02T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T05:56:57","slug":"sri-lanka-president-declares-public-emergency-after-protests-against-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43181","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka president declares public emergency after protests against economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration comes after hundreds of protesters clashed with police and the military <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a nationwide public emergency, following violent protests over the country\u2019s worst economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said in a government gazette notification late on Friday that he took the decision in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and essential services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/02\/sri-lanka-president-declares-public-emergency-after-protests-against-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration comes after hundreds of protesters clashed with police and the military Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a nationwide public emergency, following violent protests over the country\u2019s worst economic crisis in decades.Rajap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","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\/43181","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions\/43182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}