{"id":229833,"date":"2022-11-05T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=229833"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T05:54:16","slug":"when-do-you-think-the-other-tamil-political-prisoners-would-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/when-do-you-think-the-other-tamil-political-prisoners-would-be-released\/","title":{"rendered":"When Do You Think The Other Tamil Political Prisoners Would Be Released?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>By <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.V.+Wigneswaran\">C.V. Wigneswaran<\/a> \u2013<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116719\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/on-pathetic-tamils-and-why-we-decided-to-contest-this-lacked-teeth-pc-election\/sri-lanka-tamil-vote\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-116719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116719\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-116719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/C.V.Wigneswaran-e1386942745472-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice C.V. Wigneswaran MP<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hon&#8217; Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told us the other day when he met the relatives\u00a0of the incarcerated Tamil political prisoners in my company that in consequence of the request made by\u00a0me to\u00a0HE the President\u00a0the latter had requested the Hon&#8217; Minister to study my letter and discuss with the AG and see if the prisoners could be released. In consequence the first group of 8 prisoners have been released. The Hon&#8217; Minister told us publicly that the cases of the others are being gone through by the AG and soon they too would be released. He expects the release to take place before next Thai Pongal day in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But meanwhile I got to know some distressing news. Having come to know that 8 Tamil prisoners were being released in the first instance and their identity, certain persons\u00a0had informed a well to do SL Tamil person in England\u00a0that certain identified prisoners (who were in any event going to be released) could be released if a certain sum could be given to them. What they intended to do with the\u00a0money is anybody&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I wish to\u00a0tell the\u00a0Public that this issue is handled at\u00a0the highest political\u00a0and legal level. May I therefore request persons not to be cheated by\u00a0the deceptive words of middlemen. I have received information that some people are involved in collecting money from relatives, friends and well-wishers of political prisoners. Such persons should be identified and exposed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b><em>*Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, Member of Parliament, Jaffna District.<\/em><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":153278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,46,8,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Do You Think The Other Tamil Political Prisoners Would Be Released?\u00a0 - 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\/when-do-you-think-the-other-tamil-political-prisoners-would-be-released\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Do You Think The Other Tamil Political Prisoners Would Be Released?\u00a0 - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/when-do-you-think-the-other-tamil-political-prisoners-would-be-released\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-05T13:34:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-17T05:54:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tamil-Political-Prisoners-.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"C.V. 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