{"id":44231,"date":"2022-05-07T02:49:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/sri-lankan-president-calls-second-state-of-emergency-in-five-weeks"},"modified":"2022-05-07T02:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:49:53","slug":"sri-lankan-president-calls-second-state-of-emergency-in-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44231","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan president calls second state of emergency in five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police disperse students with teargas and water cannon as national strike over economic crisis takes place<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/srilanka\">Sri Lanka<\/a>\u2019s president has declared a state of emergency for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/02\/sri-lanka-president-declares-public-emergency-after-protests-against-economic-crisis\">the second time in five weeks<\/a>, giving security forces sweeping powers as a nationwide strike demanding his resignation brought the country to standstill.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he invoked the tough laws to \u201censure public order\u201d after shops closed and public transport was halted on Friday by unions blaming him for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please\">unprecedented economic crisis<\/a>, which has ignited weeks of unrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/sri-lankan-president-calls-second-state-of-emergency-in-five-weeks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police disperse students with teargas and water cannon as national strike over economic crisis takes placeSri Lanka\u2019s president has declared a state of emergency for the second time in five weeks, giving security forces sweeping powers as a nationwide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2075,"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":[80,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","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\/44231","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\/2075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231\/revisions\/44232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}