{"id":110632,"date":"2013-10-17T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=110632"},"modified":"2013-10-17T01:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:55:52","slug":"lfd-condemns-police-action-to-prevent-weliweriya-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lfd-condemns-police-action-to-prevent-weliweriya-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"LfD Condemns Police Action To Prevent Weliweriya Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Lawyers for Democracy\u2019 unreservedly condemns the action taken by the Police to prevent the demonstration organized by the residents of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Weliweriya&amp;x=14&amp;y=1\">Ratupaswala<\/a><\/span> as a blatant violation of the fundamental right of the expression enshrined in the constitution.\u00a0 The residence were protesting against the pollution of drinking water in the area due to a discharge of waste matter from a factory and which fact has been scientifically verified. \u00a0This demonstration in fact was to demand the fundamental right to life itself.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109649\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/security-officer-falsely-charged-forced-to-confess-by-police\/igp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109649\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109649\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-109649\" title=\"igp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/igp-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/igp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/igp-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspector General of Police<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Issuing a statement\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lal+Wijenayake&amp;x=12&amp;y=2\">Lal Wijenayake<\/a><\/span>, the\u00a0Convener of the Lawyers for Democracy says; &#8220;The attempt to justify the ban on this demonstration by citing the earlier incident where demonstrators were attached by the Army makes the situation more serious as it is an attempt to justify the unruly behavior of the Army in violation of the fundamental right of the people to demonstrate and express their views on a matter that affects their right to life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lawyers+for+Democracy&amp;x=14&amp;y=4\">Lawyers for Democracy<\/a><\/span> views this as another attempt in the ongoing process to deprive the citizens of the enjoyment of the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution in order to move towards an authoritarian regime.We call upon all those who stand for the protection of fundamental rights, rule of law and democracy to rise against these moves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":109649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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