{"id":121664,"date":"2014-03-14T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=121664"},"modified":"2014-03-14T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:31:28","slug":"tna-wants-release-of-tamil-widow-urges-international-community-to-intervene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-wants-release-of-tamil-widow-urges-international-community-to-intervene\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA Wants Release Of Tamil Widow, Urges International Community To Intervene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance has expressed shock at the arrest of the widow and disappearances activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Balendran+Jeyakumari&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Balendran Jeyakumari<\/span><\/a> by the police on Thursday night and said the high handed conduct of the Government was illustrative of the regime&#8217;s disdain towards the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kili.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121665\" alt=\"Kili\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kili.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kili.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kili-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The TNA demands that Jeyakumari and Vidushika be produced before a magistrate and released, we remain deeply concerned for their safety and wellbeing particularly in the context of reported widespread sexual violence against women in the Northern Province,&#8221; the party said in a statement a few hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>The two women have since been produced in court and Jeyakumari has been issued a Detention Order under the prevention of terrorism act and will be transferred to the Boosa camp tomorrow, activists said.<\/p>\n<p>The TNA has urged the international community to push for the women&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the statement in full;<\/p>\n<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) protests in the strongest terms the arrest of a widow named Balendra Jeyakumari and her thirteen-year-old daughter Vidushika from Dharmapuram in the Kilinochchi District last evening, Thursday 13 March 2014. The Sri Lankan Police claims that gunshots were heard in the vicinity of their home and that a policeman was injured. They also claim that the alleged attackers appeared to have taken shelter in Jeyakumari\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>Jeyakumari and Vidushika are active participants in most protests conducted by families of the disappeared in the Northern Province. Jeyakumari\u2019s two sons were killed in the war and the third went missing after she handed him over to the military in May 2009. Vidushika is her only remaining child.<\/p>\n<p>A massive contingent of several hundred security personnel surrounded Jeyakumari\u2019s house last afternoon, confiscated their mobile telephones and interrogated them for over four hours before taking them away. They were reportedly held in Vavuniya overnight and were to be produced before a Magistrate today, Friday 14 March 2014. However, as of 3.00pm, they are yet to be produced. TNA Members of Parliament Mavai Senathirajah and E. Saranapavan have been at the Magistrate\u2019s Court premises the whole of today. We have now heard reports that Jeyakumari and Vidushika may be detained by an Order of the Secretary, Ministry of Defence under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act, thereby circumventing the legal requirement that they be produced before a Magistrate within twenty-four hours of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The TNA is shocked and appalled at the conduct of the authorities in this regard. The high-handed conduct of the government, even while its human rights record is under scrutiny at the current sessions of the Human Rights Council, is illustrative of the government\u2019s disdainful conduct towards the Human Rights Council. The TNA demands that Jeyakumari and Vidushika be produced before a Magistrate forthwith and released. We remain deeply concerned for the safety and wellbeing of Jeyakumari and Vidushika, particularly given the context of reported widespread sexual violence against women in the Northern Province. We urge the international community to take all possible measures to ensure the safety and release of Jeyakumari and Vidushika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":121665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TNA Wants Release Of Tamil Widow, Urges International Community To Intervene - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-wants-release-of-tamil-widow-urges-international-community-to-intervene\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TNA Wants Release Of Tamil Widow, Urges International Community To Intervene - 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