{"id":48145,"date":"2022-09-03T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/03\/calls-for-sri-lanka-ousted-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-arrest-after-return"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T08:55:12","slug":"calls-for-arrest-of-sri-lankas-ousted-president-after-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48145","title":{"rendered":"Calls for arrest of Sri Lanka\u2019s ousted president after return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups say Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled in July amid protests, should be brought to justice on a number of charges<\/p>\n<p>The deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is facing calls for his arrest after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/gotabaya-rajapaksa-ousted-former-president-returns-to-sri-lanka\">returning home from self-imposed exile<\/a> under the protection of the government that took charge when he fled.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa fled the island country under military escort in July when a huge crowd stormed his official residence after months of angry demonstrations against his government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/03\/calls-for-sri-lanka-ousted-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-arrest-after-return\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups say Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled in July amid protests, should be brought to justice on a number of chargesThe deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is facing calls for his arrest after returning home from self-imposed exile und&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"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-48145","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\/48145","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\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145\/revisions\/48146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}