On 4 and 7 December 2012, members of the human rights organisations Right to Life and Families of the Disappeared (FOD) were repeatedly summoned and questioned by police and immigration officials following a solidarity event organised by the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) and its partners. Police officers appeared at the event and threatened to arrest several human rights defenders who were in attendance, seizing a copy of a documentary and electronic equipment in the process. Both NGOs work on human rights issues including enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka. The solidarity event took place at Lagoon View Restaurant in Negombo around 6.30pm on 3 December 2012. Among the guests were AFAD Council members from various Asian countries including the Philippines and Indonesia, and numerous members of civil society organisations as well as two mothers of victims of enforced disappearances. A Sinhala-language version of an AFAD primer on the UN Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance was presented, and a documentary was shown about the commemoration of victims of disappearances and massacres in Sri Lanka that was held on 27 October 2012. At 9.10pm, a group of people including the two mothers of disappeared victims and FOD Secretary Mr Wasantha Ranil Kumara left the venue in a taxi, which was stopped 100 metres further down the road. A group of policemen, both uniformed and in plain clothes, questioned the human rights defender and the mothers of the victims before forcing them to sit in the police jeep and confiscating their mobile phones and a laptop which they had with them. Wasantha Ranil Kumara was told by the officers that the group would be arrested. The officers reportedly said this was because they had shown a documentary critical of the President to foreigners at the event. The officers also demanded a copy of the documentary. After being held in the jeep for an hour, the group were eventually let go without arrest after the FOD Chairperson Mr Brito Fernando arrived and argued with the officers. Right to Life Secretary Mr Philip Dissanayake was also stopped by police while leaving the venue, and the organisation's laptop, projector and camera were seized. AFAD Council members who left the venue to go to the airport were also followed and stopped by police officers who recorded their passport details. Around 1pm the following day, five officials from the investigative unit of the Department of Immigration and Emigration led by Chief Immigration Officer W. P. Aminth S. Perera came to the Right to Life and FOD offices and questioned three staff members, among them Wasantha Ranil Kumara, about the purpose of the event and the foreigners who had come to attend it. When Brito Fernando arrived, he was similarly questioned but refused to answer in the absence of an official written request. He was subsequently summoned for questioning at the Department of Immigration and Emigration on 7 December 2012. During that interview he was again asked for details of the foreign visitors who had come to Sri Lanka for the event.