{"id":25520,"date":"2018-03-21T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25520"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:05:52","slug":"us-asks-maldives-to-lift-emergency-restore-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-asks-maldives-to-lift-emergency-restore-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks Maldives to lift emergency, restore rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington,<br \/>\nThe United States on Wednesday urged President Abdulla Yameen to lift the state of emergency in the Maldives and restore the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to call on President Yameen to end the state of emergency, uphold the rule of law, permit the full and proper functioning of Parliament, and restore the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the people of the Maldives,\u201d a State Department Spokesperson told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson was responding to a question on the recent meetings that Maldivian opposition leaders has had with officials of the State Department and other wings of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>State Department officials met with the former Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem in Washington on March 15, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey exchanged perspectives on the current situation in the Maldives,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Maldivian authorities to immediately free two journalists with opposition TV channel Raajje TV who have been held for the past four days, and to \u201cstop hounding\u201d the country\u2019s opposition media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the authorities to immediately release the two journalists, whose detention has been extended without any concrete evidence being produced to support a judicial investigation,\u201d said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF\u2019s Asia-Pacific desk.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, The United States on Wednesday urged President Abdulla Yameen to lift the state of emergency in the Maldives and restore the rule of law. \u201cWe continue to call on President Yameen to end the state of emergency, uphold the rule of law, permit the full and proper functioning of Parliament, and restore the constitutionally [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25522,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520\/revisions\/25522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}