{"id":63493,"date":"2012-12-07T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=63493"},"modified":"2012-12-07T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:12:06","slug":"impeachment-us-embassy-urges-transparency-and-due-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/impeachment-us-embassy-urges-transparency-and-due-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment: US Embassy Urges Transparency And Due Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The United States Embassy remains very concerned about the state of the Sri Lankan judiciary and the impeachment process of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=5&amp;y=3\">Chief Justice<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge that the Government of Sri Lanka and the Parliamentary Select Committee investigating the Chief Justice ensure any investigation be conducted transparently, guarantee due process, and is conducted in accordance with the rule of law.&#8221; says <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=+US+Embassy+Colombo&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\">US Embassy Colombo<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[6020,6171,6836],"class_list":["post-63493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-impeachment-motion-against-chief-justice-shirani-bandaranayake","tag-impeachment-proceedings-against-a-chief-justice-of-sri-lanka","tag-us-embassy-on-impeachment-process-of-the-chief-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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