{"id":3898,"date":"2018-06-15T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/uncategorized\/sri-lanka-hardline-monk-gnanasara-jailed-for-intimidation\/41"},"modified":"2018-06-15T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:02:41","slug":"sri-lanka-hardline-monk-gnanasara-jailed-for-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka hardline monk Gnanasara jailed for intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thero walks towards a prison bus in Homagama, Sri Lanka, 14 June 2018\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sri-lanka-hardline-monk-gnanasara-jailed-for-intimidation-5b2310319dcf6.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thero leads a Buddhist nationalist staff accused of violence <\/p>\n<p>A court in Sri Lanka has sentenced a hardline Buddhist monk to 6 months in prison for threatening the spouse of a lacking cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p>Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero was found accountable of criminally intimidating Sanya Eknaligoda at a court docket in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka infrequently convicts Buddhist monks.<\/p>\n<p>This is the primary time Gnanasara has been jailed, even if he has previously been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence.<\/p>\n<p>The monk, who leads the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or &#8220;Buddhist Power Drive&#8221;, had interrupted a court docket listening to through which military intelligence officials have been accused of abducting Sanya Eknaligoda&#8217;s husband.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sri-lanka-hardline-monk-gnanasara-jailed-for-intimidation-5b231031af30e.jpg\"> Image copyright bbc Symbol caption Sanjaya Eknaligoda and her son have spent years highlighting Prageeth Eknaligoda&#8217;s plight <\/p>\n<p>Gnanasara was once found in charge on two counts and sentenced to 2 six-month terms, to be served concurrently. He used to be additionally ordered to pay 50,000 rupees ($310; \u00a3230) in reimbursement to Sandya Eknaligoda.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents say the court docket ruling is vital in the majority Sinhalese united states of america, where it is almost unheard-of for a Buddhist monk to take delivery of a custodial sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the monk was pursued through the police in reference to assaults towards Muslims. He later passed himself in and was granted bail. <\/p>\n<p>He has shut hyperlinks with Wirathu, an extremist monk in Myanmar (also called Burma).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thero leads a Buddhist nationalist staff accused of violence A court in Sri Lanka has sentenced a hardline Buddhist monk to 6 months in prison for threatening the spouse of a lacking cartoonist. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero was found accountable of criminally intimidating Sanya Eknaligoda at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1107,610,594,1108,1109],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asia","tag-general-news","tag-international-news","tag-south-asia","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}