{"id":160237,"date":"2016-04-04T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=160237"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T09:44:26","slug":"kumar-gunaratnams-life-in-danger-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kumar-gunaratnams-life-in-danger-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Gunaratnam\u2019s Life In Danger: Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumar+Gunaratnam&amp;x=9&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kumar Gunaratnam<\/span><\/a> has said that she fears her son\u2019s life is under threat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_160238\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kumar-gunaratnams-life-in-danger-mother\/kumar-gunaratnams-mother\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160238\" class=\"wp-image-160238 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kumar-Gunaratnams-mother-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kumar Gunaratnam's mother\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kumar-Gunaratnams-mother-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kumar-Gunaratnams-mother-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-160238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajamani Gunaratnam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking to media, Rajamani Gunaratnam said that it was suspicious how her son has been transferred from the Kegalle prison to the Anuradhapura prison without reason. \u201cNo proper reason was given for this transfer, and the authority\u2019s decision to transfer him to a prison as far off in Anuradhapura is suspicious, and it also prevents us from visiting him regularly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>His mother also called upon the authorities to provide her son with a Sri Lankan citizenship, as he was born in Kegalle and even completed his higher education in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>On March 31, Gunaratnam, an Australian citizen, was sentenced to one year imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 50,000 for violating immigration laws and overstaying his visa in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a member of the FSP Pubudu Jayagoda said that they will seek for explanation from the Commissioner General of Prisons as to why Gunaratnam was transferred from Kegalle to Anuradhapura without reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":160238,"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-160237","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 - 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