{"id":126773,"date":"2014-06-24T05:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=126773"},"modified":"2014-06-24T05:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T00:12:44","slug":"media-secretary-charitha-herath-deletes-his-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/media-secretary-charitha-herath-deletes-his-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Secretary Charitha Herath Deletes His Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publicly illustrating the present mindset of many civil servants in Sri Lanka, Media Ministry Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Charitha+Herath&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Charitha Herath<\/span><\/a>\u00a0yesterday uploaded a controversial tweet that condoned the sentencing of three Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt \u2013 a verdict that has been heavily criticized worldwide, even by the UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twitter-_-charith9_-AlJazeera-journalists-in-...jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-126774\" alt=\"Twitter _ charith9_ #AlJazeera #journalists in ..\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twitter-_-charith9_-AlJazeera-journalists-in-...jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twitter-_-charith9_-AlJazeera-journalists-in-...jpg 1181w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twitter-_-charith9_-AlJazeera-journalists-in-..-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twitter-_-charith9_-AlJazeera-journalists-in-..-1024x893.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twitter-_-charith9_-AlJazeera-journalists-in-..-800x697.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a>Last afternoon Herath uploaded a tweet from his handle @charith9 that read:<\/p>\n<p>#AlJazeera #journalists in Cairo sentenced to 7 years in jail. Reason was to help M\/brotherhood. How many of that kind helped LTTE in #lka<\/p>\n<p>However, few minutes later he deleted but it had already been recorded by Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>This tweet also seems rather ominous, seeing as the Rajapksa state-owned daily English newspaper\u2019s Editor Rajpal Abeynayake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/state-media-says-vulture-media-provided-oxygen-for-the-fire\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his editorials<\/span><\/a> on Saturday and yesterday called for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-state-media-editor-calls-for-al-jazeera-reporter-to-be-locked-up\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">arrests of journalists<\/span><\/a> who updated the ground situation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Aluthgama&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aluthgama<\/span><\/a> and Beruwala in the wake of anti-Muslim clashes last week.<\/p>\n<p>The three journalists Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were sentenced to seven years imprisonment today under charges of propagating false news and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. They were detained on 29 December 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":126776,"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-126773","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Media Secretary Charitha Herath Deletes His Tweets  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/media-secretary-charitha-herath-deletes-his-tweets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Media Secretary Charitha Herath Deletes His Tweets  - 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