{"id":73875,"date":"2013-02-16T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73875"},"modified":"2013-02-16T22:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T22:15:02","slug":"navi-pillay-warns-sri-lanka-against-harassing-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/navi-pillay-warns-sri-lanka-against-harassing-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Navi Pillay Warns Sri Lanka Against Harassing Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Frances+Harrison&amp;x=4&amp;y=6\">Frances Harrison<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Navi+Pillay&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\">Navi Pillay<\/a><\/span>, says her office is on the look out for further reprisals by the Sri Lankan government against human rights activists and journalists who attend next month\u2019s human rights council meeting in Geneva.\u00a0 This follows intimidation and death threats against Sri Lankan human rights defenders who travelled to Geneva last year. One government minister even\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-17491832\" target=\"_blank\">threatened<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to break the legs of any journalist or activist who went to the Human Rights Council. Ms Pillay was responding to questions after giving a lecture entitled, \u201cFreedom of Expression and Hate Speech: What International Human Rights Law Says\u201d, at the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/humanRights\/events\/2013\/Pillay.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">London School of Economics<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70099\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mohan-peiris-is-biased-removal-of-the-cj-is-a-calamitous-setback-for-the-rule-of-law-high-commissioner-unhrc\/navi-pillay_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70099\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70099\" title=\"navi-pillay_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/navi-pillay_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/navi-pillay_1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/navi-pillay_1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navi Pillay - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UN Commissioner for Human Rights said Sri Lanka had been reprimanded by the President of the Council last year for its behavior and added that she\u2019d even written to the country\u2019s Foreign Minister at the time to protest that some of the threats against civil society groups were carried on his own website. She said she hoped the reprisals that took place last March would not happen again, but added \u201cwe are on the watch out for this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Pillay also said in response to a question that she welcomed the internal inquiry (known as the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-20308610\" target=\"_blank\">Petrie report<\/a><\/span>) into the UN\u2019s failures in protecting human rights in Sri Lanka at the climax of the civil war in 2009. She compared the Petrie report to that on Rwanda but added, \u201cRwanda\u2019s lessons were not implemented in Sri Lanka by the UN\u201d. Ms. Pillay pointed out that she\u2019d referred to the Petrie report in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-report-of-the-office-of-the-unhrc-on-sri-lankas-reconciliation-and-accountability\/\">her own report<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Sri Lanka this week which examined at post-war accountability measures. She added that she was very pleased that the deputy Secretary General of the UN has set up a task force to look at policy and actions that could address the situation described by the Petrie report.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillcountingthedead.com\/wp\/\">http:\/\/www.stillcountingthedead.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":70099,"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-73875","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Navi Pillay Warns Sri Lanka Against Harassing Activists - 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