{"id":2999,"date":"2011-12-26T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2012-03-27T00:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:43:51","slug":"wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Poddala was kidnapped on a Colombo street. During the couple of hours he was in captivity, he was tortured and then dumped along a road.<\/p><\/div>\n

WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy, he was attacked and seeking assistance<\/h1>\n

By Colombo Telegraph –<\/p>\n

\u201cPoddala is well-known to the Embassy, and has been a key contact for PAS for years. PAO has remained in close contact with Poddala about the increasing threats, including visiting him in the hospital after he was attacked and seeking DRL assistance for him under the Human Rights Defenders Fund.\u201d the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Colombo Telegraph found the leaked cable from the WikiLeak database. The cable is classified as \u201cSECRET\u201d and discuses the media suppression situation after winning the war against LTTE , attack and the threats faced by the President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalist Association, Poddala Jayantha. The cable was written on September 1, 2009 by the Charge D\u2019Affaires Valerie C. Fowler.<\/p>\n

The Charge D\u2019Affaires wrote\u00a0\u201cBeginning on May 27, 2009, the Sri Lankan press reported widely comments made by Army Commander Fonseka and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jayantha Wickramaratne. Both stated that LTTE cadres now in custody had disclosed the names of journalists who were funded by the LTTE. General Fonseka claimed that most of these journalists were Sinhalese, some were members of organizations advocating greater media freedom, and some had secret meetings with the LTTE. Both Fonseka and Wickramaratne labeled the journalists as traitors and said that action would be taken against them. The state-owned television station ITN carried a report on the Inspector General’s comments on its May 28th broadcast. While ITN reported the Inspector General’s remarks, it broadcast images of protests, meetings, and gatherings of media trade unions and advocacy organizations. The camera zoomed in on the faces of individual members and leaders of those groups, including Poddala. On May 29, 2009, Poddala and two other media advocates met with PAO and expressed fears for their safety following the broadcast. In particular, they were worried that statements by the Army Commander and the IGP would engender a new wave of violence against journalists by ultranationalist gangs and thugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valerie C. Fowler wrote \u201cOn June 1, 2009, Poddala was kidnapped on a Colombo street. During the couple of hours he was in captivity, he was tortured and then dumped along a road. He suffered multiple fractures to his leg, a severe burn on his foot, internal injuries in abdomen, and cuts and bruises on his head. As a way to further humiliate him, his head and beard were shaved and hair stuck in his mouth to muffle his screams. According to Poddala, before the abductors left him on the roadside, they told him, \u2018if you ever work in Sri Lanka again, we will kill you and your family.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cOn October 3, 2009 he again received threats from unknown callers. The threats led Poddala to flee the country, this time with his family. Post has endeavored to assist Poddala through the DRL Human Rights Defenders Fund.\u201d she further wrote.<\/p>\n

Read the\u00a0cable below\u00a0for further details; (Biodata edited by Colombo Telegraph)<\/p>\n

Related news;\u00a0WikiLeaks: Fonseka and IGP labelled journalists as traitors \u2013 Four journalists came to\u00a0Embassy<\/a><\/p>\n

VZCZCXYZ0005\r\nOO RUEHWEB\r\n\r\nDE RUEHLM #1069\/01 3290824\r\nZNY SSSSS ZZH\r\nO 250824Z NOV 09\r\nFM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO\r\nTO RUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0833\r\nINFO RUEHBK\/AMEMBASSY BANGKOK PRIORITY 3983\r\nRUEHKT\/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU PRIORITY 7366\r\nS E C R E T COLOMBO 001069\r\n\r\nSIPDIS\r\n\r\nKATHMANDU FOR REFCOORD MWEINBERG\r\nBANGKOK FOR REFCOORD TSCHERER\r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 10\/08\/2019\r\nTAGS: PHUM<\/a> PREF<\/a> SCUL<\/a> CE<\/a>\r\nSUBJECT: EMBASSY COLOMBO P-1 REQUEST\r\n\r\nREF: COLOMBO 596\r\n\r\nClassified By: CHARGE D'AFFAIRES VALERIE C. FOWLER.  REASONS: 1.4 (B, D\r\n)\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>1.   (SBU) This is an action request for PRM,s Admissions\r\nOffice.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>2.  (SBU)  SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Post requests access\r\nto the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for a Sri\r\nLankan national well-known to the Embassy Public Affairs\r\nSection who is planning to flee the country within days.\r\nPoddala Jayantha has faced increasing threats and attacks in\r\nhis position as a leading journalist and advocate for media\r\nfreedom.  In light of a violent June 1 attack which\r\nnecessitated his surgery and hospitalization (Ref A) and\r\nsubsequent threats, Post believes he faces a well-founded\r\nfear of persecution.  Poddala is well-known to the Embassy,\r\nand has been a key contact for PAS for years.  PAO has\r\nremained in close contact with Poddala about the increasing\r\nthreats, including visiting him in the hospital after he was\r\nattacked and seeking DRL assistance for him under the Human\r\nRights Defenders Fund. Poddala will flee Sri Lanka to a\r\ncountry in Asia which does not provide asylum;  Post requests\r\nhis consideration under the USRAP.  END SUMMARY.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>3.  (C) Basic biodata for Poddala and dependents follow:\r\n\r\nPrincipal Applicant:  ATTOTAGE Prema Jayantha\r\nAKA: PODDALA Jayantha\r\nDate of Birth:  xx xx xxxx\r\nPlace of Birth:  xxxxxxxSri Lanka\r\nNationality:  Sri Lankan\r\nGender:  Male\r\n\r\nName:  xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx\r\nRelationship to PA: Wife\r\n\r\nDate of Birth:  xx xx xxxx\r\nPlace of Birth:  xxxxxxx, Sri Lanka\r\nNationality:  Sri Lankan\r\nGender:  Female\r\n\r\nName:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\r\nRelationship to PA: Daughter\r\nDate of Birth:  xx xx xxxx\r\nPlace of Birth:  xxxxxxxxx Sri Lanka\r\nNationality:  Sri Lankan\r\nGender:  Female\r\n\r\nBACKGROUND\r\n----------\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>4.   (SBU) Poddala has been one of Sri Lanka's leading\r\nadvocates for greater media freedom.  He is the President of\r\nthe Sri Lanka Working Journalist Association and a member of\r\nthe Free Media Movement.  He has organized numerous public\r\ndemonstrations demanding greater rights and protection for\r\nthe media and has won several awards from media advocacy\r\ngroups for his work. Over the past several years, Poddala\r\nreceived numerous threats stemming from his media advocacy\r\nwork, ending with a violent attack against him on June 1,\r\n\u00b6<\/a>2009. In September 2009 he was elected by his peers to be\r\nPresident of the Sri Lanka Working Journalist Association.\r\nSince his election, threats have continued.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>5.  (C) In May 2008, Poddala and a colleague were summoned by\r\nSecretary of Defense (and brother of the President) Gotabaya\r\nRajapaksa, and reprimanded over a protest campaign organized\r\nby five Sri Lankan media organizations against the abduction\r\nand assault of another Sri Lankan journalist.  The Secretary\r\nof Defense told them that if both journalists continued\r\ncriticizing the military, the Government couldn't prevent\r\nactions being taken against them by groups or individuals who\r\n\"revere\" Army Commander Fonseka.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>6.  (C) According to Poddala, following the January 2009\r\nmurder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickremantunge,\r\nthreats against him intensified.  He left the country for one\r\nmonth.  He returned to Sri Lanka due to concerns for his\r\nfamily, who had remained in Sri Lanka.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>7.  (C) Beginning on May 27, 2009, the Sri Lankan press\r\nreported widely comments made by Army Commander Fonseka and\r\nthe Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jayantha Wickramaratne.\r\n Both stated that LTTE cadres now in custody had disclosed\r\nthe names of journalists who were funded by the LTTE. General\r\nFonseka claimed that most of these journalists were\r\nSinhalese, some were members of organizations advocating\r\ngreater media freedom, and some had secret meetings with the\r\nLTTE. Both Fonseka and Wickramaratne labeled the journalists\r\nas traitors and said that action would be taken against them.\r\n The state-owned television station ITN carried a report on\r\nthe Inspector General's comments on its May 28th broadcast.\r\nWhile ITN reported the Inspector General's remarks, it\r\nbroadcast images of protests, meetings, and gatherings of\r\nmedia trade unions and advocacy organizations. The camera\r\nzoomed in on the faces of individual members and leaders of\r\nthose groups, including Poddala.  On May 29, 2009, Poddala\r\nand two other media advocates met with PAO and expressed\r\nfears for their safety following the broadcast. In\r\nparticular, they were worried that statements by the Army\r\nCommander and the IGP would engender a new wave of violence\r\nagainst journalists by ultranationalist gangs and thugs.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>8.  (SBU)  On June 1, 2009, Poddala was kidnapped on a\r\nColombo street.  During the couple of hours he was in\r\ncaptivity, he was tortured and then dumped along a road.  He\r\nsuffered multiple fractures to his leg, a severe burn on his\r\nfoot, internal injuries in his abdomen, and cuts and bruises\r\non his head.  As a way to further humiliate him, his head and\r\nbeard were shaved and hair stuck in his mouth to muffle his\r\nscreams.  According to Poddala, before the abductors left him\r\non the roadside, they told him, \"if you ever work in Sri\r\nLanka again, we will kill you and your family.\"  He required\r\nsurgery on June 3 and was hospitalized for weeks; PAO visited\r\nPoddala during his hospital stay.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>9.  (C) On June 2, following the attack on Poddala, former\r\nCDA Moore spoke with Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa.\r\nCharge expressed his concern at the most recent assault on a\r\njournalist.  Echoing Gotabhaya Rajapaksa,s warnings to the\r\njournalists a year prior, Basil responded that \"the public\"\r\nis angry and the government could not control these passions.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>10.   (C)  In September 2009, Poddala was elected by his\r\npeers to be President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalist\r\nAssociation, and he attended the opening of the new offices\r\nof the SLWJA.  The English and Sinhala press covered the\r\nevent.  On October 3, 2009 he again received threats from\r\nunknown callers.  The threats led Poddala to flee the\r\ncountry, this time with his family.  Post has endeavored to\r\nassist Poddala through the DRL Human Rights Defenders Fund.\r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>11.  (SBU) In light of the violence and escalating threats\r\nPoddala has faced as a leading media advocate in Sri Lanka,\r\nPost requests his access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions\r\nProgram. The Regional Refugee Coordinator concurs with this\r\nrequest. While the current PAO at post has come to know\r\nPoddala through the threats and violence he has faced,\r\nPoddala has been a leading journalist and key Embassy contact\r\nfor years.  Post appreciates PRM\/A,s prompt consideration of\r\nthis request.\r\nFOWLER<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,57,1,65,27],"tags":[1139,1161,1673,1134,1674,1659,1298,1675,1263],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-politics","category-law-and-order","category-news","category-press-freedom","category-wikileaks","tag-democracy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-general-fonseka-threatened-jouranalists","tag-human-rights","tag-poddala-jayantha-attacked","tag-press-freedom-in-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lankans-in-wikileaks","tag-u-s-refugee-admissions-program","tag-us-embassy-cables-on-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"\nWikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy - 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\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[…]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-12-26T14:10:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-03-27T00:43:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"760\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/\",\"name\":\"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-26T14:10:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-03-27T00:43:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/de9e3c959e41894c80608bdddd0387b7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg\",\"width\":\"570\",\"height\":\"760\",\"caption\":\"Poddala was kidnapped on a Colombo street. During the couple of hours he was in captivity, he was tortured and then dumped along a road.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\",\"name\":\"Colombo Telegraph\",\"description\":\"In journalism truth is a process\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/de9e3c959e41894c80608bdddd0387b7\",\"name\":\"Colombo Telegraph\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f1e558c9e5cbf36781344637e8cd79f7a43c5eef749495c25079d8d64753ff3?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f1e558c9e5cbf36781344637e8cd79f7a43c5eef749495c25079d8d64753ff3?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Colombo Telegraph\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/author\/colombo-telegraph\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy - Colombo Telegraph","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy - Colombo Telegraph","og_description":"[…]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/","og_site_name":"Colombo Telegraph","article_published_time":"2011-12-26T14:10:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-03-27T00:43:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":570,"height":760,"url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Colombo Telegraph","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Colombo Telegraph","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/","url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/","name":"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy - Colombo Telegraph","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg","datePublished":"2011-12-26T14:10:18+00:00","dateModified":"2012-03-27T00:43:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/de9e3c959e41894c80608bdddd0387b7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg","width":"570","height":"760","caption":"Poddala was kidnapped on a Colombo street. During the couple of hours he was in captivity, he was tortured and then dumped along a road."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-poaddala-jayantha-has-been-a-key-contact-for-the-embassy-he-was-attacked-and-seeking-assistance\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"WikiLeaks: Poaddala Jayantha has been a key contact for the Embassy"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/","name":"Colombo Telegraph","description":"In journalism truth is a process","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/de9e3c959e41894c80608bdddd0387b7","name":"Colombo Telegraph","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f1e558c9e5cbf36781344637e8cd79f7a43c5eef749495c25079d8d64753ff3?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f1e558c9e5cbf36781344637e8cd79f7a43c5eef749495c25079d8d64753ff3?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Colombo Telegraph"},"url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/author\/colombo-telegraph\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/poddala-1-colombotelegraph.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35738,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/35738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}