{"id":27684,"date":"2010-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/press\/briefing-highlights-threat-of-sinhala-nationalists-945\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:31:35","slug":"briefing-highlights-threat-of-sinhala-nationalists-945","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/press\/briefing-highlights-threat-of-sinhala-nationalists-945\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefing highlights threat of Sinhala nationalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>CSW has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/dynamic.csw.org.uk\/article.asp?t=report&#038;id=123&#038;search=\">new briefing<\/a>, highlighting the risk posed by Sinhala Buddhist nationalism to religious freedom in Sri Lanka. It warns that the level of anti-Christian violence has risen since the end of the civil war in May 2009, and that an &#8220;anti-conversion&#8221; bill proposed by the JHU, a party of Buddhist monks, remains on the political agenda in 2010.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexa Papadouris, CSW Advocacy Director, said, &#8220;It is important that the victorious candidate in next week&#8217;s presidential election seeks to uphold strongly the rights of all who fall outside Sri Lanka&#8217;s Sinhala Buddhist majority. Protecting religious freedom must be an important dimension of this&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes to editors:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s presidential election takes place on 26 January.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW has released a new briefing, highlighting the risk posed by Sinhala Buddhist nationalism to religious freedom in Sri Lanka. It warns that the level of anti-Christian violence has risen since the end of the civil war in May 2009, and that an anti-conversion bill proposed by the JHU, a party of Buddhist monks, remains on the political agenda in 2010.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42463,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[121,127],"class_list":["post-27684","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-south-asia","regions-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38271,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27684\/revisions\/38271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27684"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=27684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}