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HRC Flooded With Complaints Over Jaffna Arrests

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The Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Jaffna was flooded with complaints last week from distressed family members whose relatives were arrested by the police.


The complaints lodged at the HRC Jaffna rose to 43 by Friday following an intensive operation carried out by the police over allegations that those arrested were ex LTTE cadres.
 

A swoop down on the suspects followed the arrest of eleven Jaffna university students by the police over the lighting of flames by Jaffna university students to commemorate the dead on the LTTE ‘Heroes day’ anniversary last month.
 

Jaffna Human Rights Commission coordinator K. Kanagaraj said that the arrests are all legal as receipts are being issued following the arrests. “The arrests are legal and it is in keeping with the PTA,” Kanagaraj said.
 

It is learnt that those arrested have been taken to Colombo and Vavuniya for questioning.  Kanagaraj said that the HRC is monitoring the situation and seeing to the well being of those detained.
 

“They have been taken for interrogation and they cannot detain them indefinitely. They have to be released or if charged proved in a court of law,” he said.
 

However police media spokesperson Prishantha Jayakody said that there were only 37 arrests made so far and that the operation has been concluded.
 

The police claim that the families of all those who are in custody have been informed of the arrests. “They will be interrogated and released if innocent or a detention order will be issued to send them to rehabilitation camps”.

 

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2012/12/22/hrc-flooded-with-complaints-over-jaffna-arrests/

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