{"id":63195,"date":"2012-12-05T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=63195"},"modified":"2012-12-05T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T08:23:38","slug":"patrick-brown-expresses-concern-over-the-worsening-human-rights-situation-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/patrick-brown-expresses-concern-over-the-worsening-human-rights-situation-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Brown Expresses Concern Over The Worsening Human Rights Situation In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Brown, the Member of Parliament for Barrie in\u00a0Canada , expresses serious concern over the recent threats to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63196\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/patrick-brown-expresses-concern-over-the-worsening-human-rights-situation-in-sri-lanka\/patrick-brown\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63196\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63196\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63196\" title=\"Patrick Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Patrick-Brown-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Patrick-Brown-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Patrick-Brown.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Brown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On November 28, the beating of a reporter in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jaffna&amp;x=16&amp;y=7\">Jaffna<\/a><\/span>, harassment by Government of Sri Lanka officials towards independent media outlets and searches of journalists without warrants all serve to stifle the freedom of the media. Brown is also greatly concerned over reports of attacks, continued harassment and detention of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jaffna+University&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\">Jaffna University<\/a><\/span> student leaders. He calls upon Sri Lankan authorities to exercise restraint, to respect peaceful demonstrations and to release the student leaders immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI first became engaged with the plight of the people in this region back in 2009 when the\u00a0Sureshkumar family of Barrie shared their Sri Lankan experiences with me. These recent reports of escalating human rights abuse in Sri Lanka are certainly raising the level of concern across the International Community\u201d, said Patrick Brown, Member of Parliament for Barrie. \u201cMilitarization and authoritarian trends are not part of any real democracy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned about the lack of reconciliation and the authoritarian trend we\u2019ve seen in many government actions in recent months,\u201d Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said last week.<\/p>\n<p>Brown also urges Sri Lanka to remove the military from the Tamil populated area and leave the administration to civilian officials. Also, he said it is time for the International community to play a meaningful role to bring a speedy resolution to the Tamil Grievances in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":63196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[6825],"class_list":["post-63195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-what-are-tamil-grievances-in-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Patrick Brown Expresses Concern Over The Worsening Human Rights Situation In Sri Lanka  - 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\/patrick-brown-expresses-concern-over-the-worsening-human-rights-situation-in-sri-lanka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patrick Brown Expresses Concern Over The Worsening Human Rights Situation In Sri Lanka  - 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