{"id":161379,"date":"2016-04-28T02:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=161379"},"modified":"2016-04-28T03:41:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T22:11:21","slug":"namal-wants-un-torture-experts-to-investigate-political-victimisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/namal-wants-un-torture-experts-to-investigate-political-victimisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namal Wants UN Torture Experts To Investigate Political Victimisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Namal+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Namal Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> has urged two top United Nations human rights experts to investigate political victimisation under President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s administration during the past one year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/namal-wants-un-torture-experts-to-investigate-political-victimisation\/namal1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-161381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-161381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Namal1.jpg\" alt=\"Namal1\" width=\"446\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Namal1.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Namal1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a>His request comes just before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=19882&amp;LangID=E\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a scheduled visit by UN human rights experts<\/span><\/a> M\u00f3nica Pinto and Juan E. M\u00e9ndez who will arrive in Sri Lanka on Friday to assess the recent developments and identify challenges related to the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to the independence of the justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Namal, the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a tweet said, \u201chope, UN&#8217;s M\u00f3nica Pinto and Juan E. M\u00e9ndez will look into LTTE&#8217;s atrocities and political victimisation during the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During their stay, which will conclude on May 7, Pinto and M\u00e9ndez will meet with high level government officials, members of the judiciary and prosecution services, lawyers, civil society, the National Human Rights Commission, and victims and their families. They will also travel to North, North Central, Eastern, Central and Southern provinces, and will also visit places where persons are detained.<\/p>\n<p>An analyst quipped that it was ironic that someone in the likes of Namal Rajapaksa requesting for a probe into political victimization, specially taking into account the high level of political victimization critics and anyone deemed as a \u2018threat\u2019 to the former President underwent during an almost ten year long rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":161381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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