{"id":73605,"date":"2025-08-24T00:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/23\/sri-lanka-former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-admitted-to-hospital-arrest-charges"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:56:59","slug":"former-sri-lankan-president-admitted-to-hospital-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73605","title":{"rendered":"Former Sri Lankan president admitted to hospital after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe, who faces charges of using public funds for private travel, treated for acute dehydration<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s former president was admitted to hospital on Saturday, a day after he was charged with using public funds to finance private international travel, as the government intensified its crackdown on corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe, 76, was remanded in custody on Friday after being accused of using taxpayers\u2019 money to pay for a two-day visit to the UK in September 2023 to attend a ceremony at the University of Wolverhampton granting an honorary professorship to his wife.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/23\/sri-lanka-former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-admitted-to-hospital-arrest-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe, who faces charges of using public funds for private travel, treated for acute dehydrationSri Lanka\u2019s former president was admitted to hospital on Saturday, a day after he was charged with using public funds to finance private inte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1674,"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-73605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73605","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\/1674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73605\/revisions\/73606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}