{"id":175307,"date":"2017-03-21T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=175307"},"modified":"2017-03-22T00:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:17:53","slug":"keith-noyahr-attack-another-army-intelligence-officer-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/keith-noyahr-attack-another-army-intelligence-officer-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Noyahr Attack: Another Army Intelligence Officer Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CID has arrested a 34 year old Army Corporal attached to the Army Intelligence Directorate over the abduction and assault of senior journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Keith+Noyahr&amp;x=9&amp;y=0\">Keith Noyahr<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2467\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/keith-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2467\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/keith-colombotelegraph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/keith-colombotelegraph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/keith-colombotelegraph-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apart from the latest arrest, Five other army officers, including a Major are in remand for allegedly abducting and assaulting Noyahr. The five officers have also been suspended by the Army due to their role in the journalist&#8217;s assault.<\/p>\n<p>Noyahr was abducted in May 2008 near his residence and was severely beaten but was released the next day. The incident happened just days after Noyahr wrote an article critical of Sarath Fonseka in his weekly military column published in The Nation. Fonseka now serves as senior minister in the present government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","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>Keith Noyahr Attack: Another Army Intelligence Officer Arrested - 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\/keith-noyahr-attack-another-army-intelligence-officer-arrested\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keith Noyahr Attack: Another Army Intelligence Officer Arrested - 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