{"id":20886,"date":"2013-05-04T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T04:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=20886"},"modified":"2013-05-04T20:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T00:33:57","slug":"canada-condemns-arrest-of-mr-azath-salley-and-calls-for-his-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=20886","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Ambassador for Religious Freedom  Condemns Arrest of Mr.Azath Salley and Calls for his Immediate release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by<br \/>\nAndrew Bennet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>May 3, 2013 &#8211; Andrew Bennett, Canada\u2019s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, today issued the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20925\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AB050413.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20925\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AB050413-600x339.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Bennett-Canada\u2019s Ambassador for Religious Freedom\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20925\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Bennett-Canada\u2019s Ambassador for Religious Freedom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCanada condemns the arrest of Azad Sally, leader of Sri Lanka\u2019s newly formed Muslim Tamil National Alliance. Mr. Sally was reportedly taken into custody by Sri Lankan authorities on May 2.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call for Mr. Sally\u2019s immediate release. We understand his arrest is likely motivated by his work on human rights, in particular his defence of religious freedom, including the right of religious communities to practise their faith in Sri Lanka without fear of reprisals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest action by the authorities suggests strongly that those who dare to criticize the Government of Sri Lanka can face consequences such as imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada will continue to stand by all those who courageously speak out against egregious violations of human rights and freedom of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton20886\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D20886&amp;text=Canada%26%238217%3Bs%20Ambassador%20for%20Religious%20Freedom%20%20Condemns%20Arrest%20of%20Mr.Azath%20Salley%20and%20Calls%20for%20his...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Andrew Bennet May 3, 2013 &#8211; Andrew Bennett, Canada\u2019s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, today issued the following statement: \u201cCanada condemns the arrest of Azad Sally, leader of Sri Lanka\u2019s newly formed Muslim Tamil National Alliance. Mr. Sally was reportedly taken into custody by Sri Lankan authorities on May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20926,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions\/20926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}