{"id":320227,"date":"2020-02-19T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320227"},"modified":"2020-02-19T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:08:03","slug":"supreme-court-appointed-mediators-reach-shaheen-bagh-to-meet-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-appointed-mediators-reach-shaheen-bagh-to-meet-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court-appointed mediators reach Shaheen Bagh to meet protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320228 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sc-mediators.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sc-mediators.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sc-mediators-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sc-mediators-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sc-mediators-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>The Supreme Court-appointed mediators visited Shaheen Bagh on Wednesday to initiate talks with the protesters after the Top Court on February 17, suggested that the demonstration should be held in another location where no public place is blocked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While talking to reporters, the mediators, Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran, said they had come to Shaheen Bagh after the order of Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe hope to speak to everyone. We hope to resolve the matter with everybody\u2019s cooperation,\u201d said Sanjay Hegde.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protesters have been on a sit-in against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) for over two months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On February 17, the Top Court said, \u201cpeople have the right to protest but the question is where to hold agitation. Blocking of roads was the only thing causing trouble. Democracy works on expressing views but there are lines and boundaries for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court-appointed mediators visited Shaheen Bagh on Wednesday to initiate talks with the protesters after the Top Court on February 17, suggested that the demonstration should be held in another location where no public place is blocked. While talking to reporters, the mediators, Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran, said they had come to Shaheen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,12640],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320229,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320227\/revisions\/320229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}