{"id":13360,"date":"2013-08-27T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2013-08-27T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:25:41","slug":"suresh-gopi-to-support-jazeera-in-her-fight-against-sand-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/suresh-gopi-to-support-jazeera-in-her-fight-against-sand-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Suresh Gopi to support Jazeera in her fight against sand-mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor <strong>Suresh Gopi<\/strong> has come forward to offer his support for the lone protestor<a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/jazeera-a-lone-protestor-who-takes-on-the-sand-mafia\/\" target=\"_blank\">, <strong>Jazeera<\/strong> and her three children who have been carrying out a silent protest in front of the North Gate of Secretariat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The actor has called Jazeera on phone to offer his support. Suresh Gopi has even asked the Chief Minister to provide protection for her. Jazeera&#8217;s protest has gone viral in the social media and help from various environmental organizations began to pour in.<\/p>\n<p>31-year-old Jazeera hailing from Kannur, has been staging a solitary protest for the past 3 weeks in front of the Secretariat, against the sand mafia that is eating up the beach near her childhood home at Kannur.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the <strong>Child Line<\/strong> officials had approached Jazeera to take the children with them after receiving a petition from the Cantonment police saying that they were unsafe on the roadside. But after Jazeera resisted, they went back, giving a day\u2019s more time for her to take a decision on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident Jazeera had sent two of her children <strong>Rizwana<\/strong> and <strong>Shifana<\/strong> to a school in the city on Friday. Only the youngest child, <strong>Mohammed<\/strong>, remained with her during the sit-in protest on the day. The two children were given admission at <strong>Chalai Girls High School.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jazeera who is an auto rickshaw driver here saw the destruction of the sea shore in her hometown when she returned for the final month of her third pregnancy. She made many visits to the collectorate and police stations but the authorities did little or nothing to prevent them. She says she will not leave until she receives a written promise from the <strong>Chief Minister<\/strong> that sand mafia will be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Suresh Gopi has come forward to offer his support for the lone protestor, Jazeera and her three children who have been carrying out a silent protest in front of the North Gate of Secretariat. The actor has called Jazeera on phone to offer his support. Suresh Gopi has even asked the Chief Minister to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-13360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}