{"id":90684,"date":"2013-06-08T00:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=90684"},"modified":"2013-06-13T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:46:54","slug":"the-spate-of-deaths-while-in-police-custody-is-alarming-lfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-spate-of-deaths-while-in-police-custody-is-alarming-lfd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spate Of Deaths While In Police Custody Is Alarming &#8211; LFD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The spate of deaths during the last few weeks of persons while in Police Custody is alarming.\u00a0 In none of these cases has the official spokesman for the police given an explanation that can even be considered by a layman to be worth considering.\u00a0 The casual manner in which the death of persons in Police Custody is being treated by authorities is an insult to our system of administration of justice&#8221; says\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lal+Wijenayake&amp;x=13&amp;y=2\">Lal Wijenayake<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54755\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/government-intimidate-the-judiciary-lfd\/lal-wijenayake-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54755\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-54755\" title=\"Lal Wijenayake 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lal-Wijenayake-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lal-Wijenayake-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lal-Wijenayake-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lal Wijenayaka<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is regrettable that our political system is not concerned of the disappearances, abductions, extra judicial killings, death of persons in police custody and in general with the violations of fundamental rights of citizens.\u00a0 It is Parliament that should have taken up these matters and seen to it that every incident is accounted for.\u00a0 The lethargy of the legislature to take up these matters has made\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 these incidents to pass unchallenged.\u00a0 Therefore, we call upon Parliament to take up these matters as urgent matters of deep concern to the people&#8221; the\u00a0Convener &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lawyers+for+Democracy&amp;x=8&amp;y=3\">Lawyers for Democracy<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Lal Wijenayake told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":54755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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