COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Attorney General has informed the Court of Appeal that he will have no objection if bail is given to the veteran Tamil journalist J S Tissainayagam. The scribe was sentenced to 20 years rigorous imprisonment by the High Court of Colombo in August this year.
Tissainayagam was convicted for inciting ‘communal disharmony’ through his magazine North Eastern Monthly and the news website Outreach during 2006-2007, which was punishable under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The magazine had criticised the government’s role in the war against the Tamil Tiger rebels and accused the authorities of withholding food and other essential items from Tamil-majority areas in the island’s north. He was also convicted for collecting money from the LTTE to run the magazine and thereby furthering terrorism.
Aide was abducted: Fonseka
Former Lankan Army chief and the joint Opposition candidate for the Presidential election, Gen Sarath Fonseka, on Tuesday, complained to the Commissioner of Elections, that a retired Army officer, who was working for him had been forcibly detained for two days. Party activists were being harassed and threatened, he said and added that some even tried to prevent him from handing over his nomination by blocking the roads, he added.
Lanka asks UN to recall letter
Sri Lanka has asked Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings and arbitrary executions, to withdraw his letter seeking clarifications on the alleged killing of three top LTTE leaders. Alston had sought clarification from Lanka on the death of the LTTE leaders who had reportedly approached the army lines to surrender during the final days of Eelam War.
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