{"id":208221,"date":"2020-02-21T23:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=208221"},"modified":"2020-02-22T16:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T11:24:35","slug":"unprincipled-or-scared-eran-exposes-witch-hunt-against-scribes-lawyers-and-cops-condemns-silence-of-their-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unprincipled-or-scared-eran-exposes-witch-hunt-against-scribes-lawyers-and-cops-condemns-silence-of-their-peers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprincipled Or Scared: Eran Exposes Witch-Hunt Against Scribes, Lawyers And Cops; Condemns Silence Of Their Peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNP Lawmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Eran+Wickremaratne\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Eran Wickremaratne<\/span><\/strong><\/a> last night raised serious questions about the silence of professionals as the Government engaged in witch-hunts against their peers in a hard hitting speech in Parliament about the political transfers of police personnel and the attempts to frame journalists and media professionals for faking the abduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Swiss+Embassy\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Swiss Embassy<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Staffer Garnier Francis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVvOpdnhRWw\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Government was pushing the line that the abduction of a Swiss embassy worker was fabricated by three professionals \u2013 all of them people who have refused to bow down to threats and intimidation, Wickremaratne told Parliament, using time during the debate on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Airbus\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Airbus corruption<\/span><\/strong><\/a> scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CID and the Government wants us to believe that former Sunday Observer Editor and New York Times journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Dharisha+Bastians\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Dharisha Bastians<\/span><\/strong><\/a> former CID Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shani+Abeysekera\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Shani Abeysekera<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and former Lake House and Hilton Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Krishantha+Cooray\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Krishantha Cooray<\/span><\/strong><\/a> a former working committee member of the UNP all got together to mastermind this fictitious abduction,\u201d Wickremaratne explained. \u201cThey didn\u2019t stop there. They went after the telephone records of Dharisha Bastians, Krishantha Cooray \u2013 a well known media personality \u2013 using the excuse of a criminal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have said that without a shred of evidence, simply to frame them, because they did not bow to threats and intimidation,\u201d he said during a speech in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Blasting the CID for going into the phone records of Bastians and Cooray, Wickremaratne sought to remind the House that Sri Lanka was not a military state. \u201cThey are checking on Dharisha Bastians phone records to check whether she has made calls to the CID. She is a journalist. How can journalists practice their profession if their phone records are checked by the CID at their whim and fancy?\u201d the UNP MP charged.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremaratne emphasized that the CID must get a court order in order to go into a citizen\u2019s phone details.<\/p>\n<p>There was no doubt that the investigation was a witch-hunt, Wickremaratne said because the Government was also going after Bastians\u2019 spouse, who was a career diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was sent to Geneva two years ago \u2013 now they want to put pressure on his wife, so he has been summarily recalled without explanation and without any replacement being named. In doing so, the Government has violated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gihan+Indraguptha\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Gihan Indraguptha<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u2019s fundamental rights and legitimate expectations as a career civil servant. But they are also flouting an ancient foundational principle that underpins every decent system of law in the world. \u2013 it is not a UNP policy or a pohottuwa policy \u2013 that individuals should never be punished for things that they have not done,\u201d the UNP MP said.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremaratne slammed the media for remaining silent in the face of this persecution of a journalist and her family and the Police Commission for failing to stand up for police officers like Shani Abeysekera and CI Nihal Francis who led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=MiG+deal\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">MiG deal<\/span><\/strong><\/a> investigation. He also criticized the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and its President for its failure to stand up for an attorney at law who was recently grilled by the CID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just that the Government is targeting and persecuting professionals. That is the lesser crime. The greater crime is this \u2013 that the peers of the persecuted have stood silently and not come to the defence of their comrades,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time in Sri Lanka when the Government going after a journalist was enough to provoke an outcry in the media, through editorials and condemnation. I would like to ask the journalists: Are you unprincipled, or are you scared? \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Wickremaratne said not a single editorial had been written in newspapers about this witch hunt that is going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time when the NPC and the IGP would have stood firm against politically motivated transfers and defended honest police officers who were persecuted for doing their job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremaratne\u2019s speech also referred to Anurangi Singh, a lawyer and journalist attached to the Sunday Observer was interrogated by the CID on February 10th about her contacts and telephone calls and for information about Bastians who was her former Editor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time when the Bar Association of Sri Lanka would have risen up in arms if the Government got the CID to summon an attorney at law and to grill her about confidential information and journalistic sources. I would ask the President of BASL \u2013 don\u2019t you care about what is happening?\u201d the UNP MP charged.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the Government that during the five years that the Yahapalanaya regime had been in power, the head of the CID had never changed. \u201cOur Government only had one CID head, who was appointed in 2012 under President Mahinda Rajapaksa. That person, DIG Ravi Seneviratne retired in 2019, under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa,\u201d Wickremaratne recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessionals whoever they are must be protected and allowed to do their jobs\u201d he reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa however was going in a different direction, he noted. \u201cWhen Gotabaya Rajapaksa assumed duties on the 19th of November, the very next day he transferred CID Director Shani Abeysekera, demoted him and sent him as a personal assistant to Galle,\u201d he reminded the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice officials must stand up for their persecuted colleagues like Shani Abeysekera and Nihal Francis. Journalists must speak out against the pathetic attempts to frame people like Dharisha Bastians for an abduction merely because she made a telephone call. Career diplomats must stand in solidarity with Gihan Indraguptha who is being punished through no fault of his own. Lawyers and the BASL must object to the harassment and interrogation of Anurangi Singh by the CID and the judiciary and stand guard against any attempt to persecute Ranga Dissanayake for having the courage to stand tall,\u201d Wickremaratne charged.<\/p>\n<p>He added that former Lake House Chairman Krishantha Cooray was a \u201ccapable and committed\u201d man. \u201cHe loves this country and has made huge sacrifices for it. Anyone who knows him well will agree with me that he is actually incapable of doing anything illegal or immoral. As a country, whatever party we belong to, we have a duty to protect people like him,\u201d the UNP MP insisted. <strong><em>(By Chinthika De Silva)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":208223,"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-208221","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unprincipled Or Scared: Eran Exposes Witch-Hunt Against Scribes, Lawyers And Cops; Condemns Silence Of Their Peers - 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\/unprincipled-or-scared-eran-exposes-witch-hunt-against-scribes-lawyers-and-cops-condemns-silence-of-their-peers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unprincipled Or Scared: Eran Exposes Witch-Hunt Against Scribes, Lawyers And Cops; 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