{"id":207614,"date":"2020-01-21T01:44:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T20:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=207614"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T09:28:06","slug":"ranjangate-azzam-ameen-fired-by-bbc-over-leaked-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranjangate-azzam-ameen-fired-by-bbc-over-leaked-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranjangate: Azzam Ameen Fired By BBC Over Leaked Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has sacked its Sinhala service&#8217;s Colombo corresponded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Azzam+Ameen\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Azzam Ameen<\/span><\/strong><\/a> a short while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ameen has been sacked without\u00a0any internal inquiry or\u00a0giving any opportunity to explain his side of the story over\u00a0a couple of leaked conversations allegedly he has\u00a0had with parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake, Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-194219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azzam-Ameen-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azzam-Ameen-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azzam-Ameen-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azzam-Ameen-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azzam-Ameen-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Azzam-Ameen.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":194219,"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-207614","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 - 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