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Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sarath Fonseka is Neutral . The government claimed that Fonseka was not eligible to be a candidate as he was not a registered voter.
 "He can't be declared the winner when he is not suitable to be a candidate " Bogollagama stressed.
 Fonseka said he had applied but failed to get his name into the 2008 voter register.
 Bogollagama said the applicable electoral roll in the presidential election was finalized in 2008 and Fonseka was not on that list.
 Dayananda Dissanayaka  the Commissioner of Elections said a candidate need not be a registered voter nor cast his vote in order to be eligible to run for office and thereby Sarath Fonseka is eligible to run for the post.

Answer: yes


Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mike Freeman is Positive . Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman  declined to confirm the grand jury  citing the secrecy of any such proceeding  but said  he  still intends to make  his  own decision on whether to charge the officer.
Justine Ruszczyk Damond  a 40-year-old life coach  was killed by Minneapolis Officer Mohamed Noor just minutes after she called police to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. Noor hasn't been charged  and  Freeman  said weeks ago that more investigating was needed in the case. He also told activists in a recorded conversation that he didn't have enough evidence and investigators "haven't done their job."
In recent years   Freeman  has said he would no longer use grand juries to decide whether officers would be charged in police shootings  saying he would make those decisions himself to provide more accountability and transparency.
Marsh Halberg  a criminal defense attorney who is not connected to this case  said it could give  Freeman  a strategic advantage by requiring witnesses to testify under oath and lock down witness testimony in advance of a possible trial. Still  Halberg said  it's unclear whether a grand jury can be used strictly for investigative purposes on the state level  and it's not something he has seen in his 40-year career.
Halberg said  Freeman  could be using the grand jury as "a tactical reason to get evidence from people who are maybe refusing to testify."
Robert Bennett  an attorney for the Damond family  said he and the family support  Freeman 's use of the grand jury and think it's the right thing to do. Bennett said it's disappointing that subpoenas were necessary to get witnesses  including police officers  to be truthful.
Noor's attorney  Thomas Plunkett  issued a statement saying  Freeman 's comments "leave me unclear as to what he is doing." He added that "it would be unethical and potentially unlawful to comment publicly on this development. Worse â any public comment would jeopardize the fairness of an important judicial function."
The grand jury process has been criticized for its secrecy and because it rarely results in charges against officers.  Freeman  broke precedent with the standard practice of using grand juries to decide charges in police shootings after the November 2015 death of Jamar Clark.  Freeman  noted at that time that grand juries had been used to consider police shootings in  his  county for more than 40 years and no officers had been indicted.

Answer: no


Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Benjamin Netanyahu is Negative . At the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  said that the condition of both pilots had improved.
âWe wish both of them a quick and full recovery â  the prime minister  added.
 Netanyahu  also said that Israel âdealt severe blows to the Iranian and Syrian forces.â
âWe made it unequivocally clear to everyone that our rules of action have not changed one bit; we will continue to strike at every attempt to strike at us. This has been our policy and it will remain our policy â  he  added.
On Saturday   Netanyahu  had telephone conversations with both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian President Vladimir Putin  who have agreed that Israeli-Russian security coordination on Syria will continue.
Putin told  Netanyahu  to avoid âany steps which might trigger a new spiral of dangerous-for-all confrontation in the region â the state-owned TASS news agency said.

Answer:
no