{"id":48816,"date":"2012-07-20T06:18:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T06:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=48816"},"modified":"2012-07-20T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T06:36:04","slug":"lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Whist condemning the actions of the errant Minister and his goons, we are hopeful \u00a0that all political parties, the civil society, the media and the individuals will be united, leaving behind their differences,\u00a0 in urging for stern action against the Minister and the group who attacked the court houses. We urge the people to take all possible steps within their powers to restore Rule of Law, democracy \u00a0and constitutional values in the country.&#8221; issuing a statement says,\u00a0the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urge-the-government-of-sri-lanka-to-respect-the-right-to-peaceful-assembly\/\">Lawyers for Democracy<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below we produce the\u00a0statement in full;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48817\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/minister-rishad-badurdeen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48817\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48817\" title=\"Minister Rishad Badurdeen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Rishad Badurdeen<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LAWYWERS UEGE THE PRESIDENT TO REMOVE MINISTER BADUREEN &amp; FACILITATE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAINST HIM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the threats exerted by the Cabinet Minister Rishad Badurdeen on the Mannar Magistrate (Mr. A. Judeson), the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urge-the-government-of-sri-lanka-to-respect-the-right-to-peaceful-assembly\/\">Lawyers for Democracy<\/a><\/span> (LFD) urges the President to remove the said Minister with immediate effect. Confirmed information discloses that the Minister has interfered with the course of justice and threatened the Magistrate and thereafter the\u00a0 court houses came under attack.<\/p>\n<p>The LFD is shocked to learn of the incident where the Minister had intimidated the Magistrate \u00a0and obstructed the administration of justice. In\u00a0 case no. 396\/12, the Magistrate has made judicial orders and the law requires the Authorities\u00a0 to carry out the order of the court. A minister has no lawful authority whatsoever to interfere with course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>While the courts were in session, the attack was carried out and\u00a0 the courts were damaged, \u00a0by an organised group of people, instigated by the Minister. \u00a0This is the first time in the history of our judiciary that such direct threats and physical attacks has taken place. This is an indication of the level of deterioration of the Rule of Law in the Country. \u00a0\u00a0LfD also reiterates the need to protect the institution of Judiciary and reminds the public of the constitutional duty on all organs of the state to respect and protect the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Whist condemning the actions of the errant Minister and his goons, we are hopeful \u00a0that all political parties, the civil society, the media and the individuals will be united, leaving behind their differences,\u00a0 in urging for stern action against the Minister and the group who attacked the court houses. We urge the people to take all possible steps within their powers to restore Rule of Law, democracy \u00a0and constitutional values in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lal+Wijenayaka&amp;x=7&amp;y=8\">Lal Wijenayaka<\/a><\/span>, KS Ratnavale, Lakshan Dias, Chandrapala Kumarage \u00a0\u00a0and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=JC+Weliamuna&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\">JC Weliamuna<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Conveners on behalf of the LfD)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[3057,3058,3059,3060],"class_list":["post-48816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-cabinet-minister-rishad-badurdeen-on-the-mannar-magistrate","tag-cabinet-minister-rishad-badurdeen-on-the-mannar-magistrate-news","tag-cabinet-minister-rishad-badurdeen-threatened-mannar-magistrate","tag-lawyers-for-democracy-sri-lanka-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen - 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\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-07-20T06:18:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-07-20T06:36:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"419\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"273\" \/>\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=\"2 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\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/\",\"name\":\"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-20T06:18:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-07-20T06:36:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg\",\"width\":\"419\",\"height\":\"273\",\"caption\":\"Minister Rishad Badurdeen\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen\"}]},{\"@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\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\",\"name\":\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/920b3181b0bf86b5c339ad9f0963a89f6a8b19c4b971e629987a021ba7a663df?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/920b3181b0bf86b5c339ad9f0963a89f6a8b19c4b971e629987a021ba7a663df?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":"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen - 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\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen - Colombo Telegraph","og_description":"[&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/","og_site_name":"Colombo Telegraph","article_published_time":"2012-07-20T06:18:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-07-20T06:36:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":419,"height":273,"url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/","url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/","name":"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen - Colombo Telegraph","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg","datePublished":"2012-07-20T06:18:55+00:00","dateModified":"2012-07-20T06:36:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg","width":"419","height":"273","caption":"Minister Rishad Badurdeen"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lawyers-urges-president-to-remove-cabinet-minister-badurdeen\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lawyers Urges President To Remove Cabinet Minister Badurdeen"}]},{"@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\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3","name":"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/920b3181b0bf86b5c339ad9f0963a89f6a8b19c4b971e629987a021ba7a663df?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/920b3181b0bf86b5c339ad9f0963a89f6a8b19c4b971e629987a021ba7a663df?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\/2012\/07\/Minister-Rishad-Badurdeen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48824,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816\/revisions\/48824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}