Monday, January 11, 2010

TISSAINAYAGAM GIVEN BAIL




By Susitha Fernando - Journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was released on a cash bail of Rs. 50, 000 by Courts today on medical grounds. He was sentenced to 20 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) last year.

Tissainayagam was arrested on March 7, 2008 by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lanka Police. He was charged with attempting to cause the commission of acts of violence or racial or communal disharmony relating to articles he published in a North Eastern Monthly magazine in 2006 and 2007. He was also charged with collecting and obtaining information for the purpose of terrorism and for donating funds for the purpose of terrorism through the collection of funds for the magazine.


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Monday, January 11, 2010

Presidential candidate's envoy 'arrested'



A presidential candidate in Sri Lanka has accused the police of arresting his representative while delivering a speech at a funeral in Jaffna.

Presidential Candidate of Left Front Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne accused the police of being racist and violating election laws by arresting his representative Dharmasiri Lankapeli in Velvetithurai.



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Monday, January 11, 2010

Rajapaksa woos minority Tamils as Sri Lanka presidential vote nears



Jeremy Page - President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka took his re-election campaign to the Tamil heartland of Jaffna yesterday on his first visit to the region since his army defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels in May.

Mr Rajapaksa, who is facing a presidential election in two weeks’ time, promised to speed up reconstruction and resettlement efforts for the 300,000 Tamils who fled from the conflict zone and were detained in internment camps until last month. “The President moved about freely and spoke with the civilians,” his spokesman, Chandrapala Liyanage, said.



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Monday, January 11, 2010

Rajapaksa, Fonseka face-off on cyberspace



Sutirtho Patranobis - They are not known to be geeks but Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his rival Sarath Fonseka have taken their political sabers to cyberspace.

With help from the Sinhala and Tamil diaspora, Rajapaksa and Fonseka are all over the internet. Scores of sites about the two have sprung up. Social networking sites are having a field day, and thousands of hits, with supporters of the two slugging it out virtually.


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