Sri Lanka: media worker family interrogated
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Nov 27, 2022
- Event Description
On 27 November 2022, Sri Lankan police visited Selvakumar Nilanthan’s residence in Batticaloa and interrogated his family about his whereabouts. Nilanthan was forced to leave Sri Lanka 8 months ago due to continuous threats and intimidation. Police had questioned his family about his country of current residence, countries recently visited and his phone number. They threatened the family that if Nilanthan did not respond to police summons the family would be forced to appear instead. Intimidation of Tamil journalists and human rights defenders in the highly militarized North and East of Sri Lanka continues with impunity. Threatening family members of human rights defenders is an additional burden to the hardship they are forced to endure.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Family of HRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 7.732513308041291
Longitude: 81.6934722470351
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 27 November 2022, the family of media worker Selvakumar Nilanthan was visited by the police and interrogated about the HRD whereabouts, threatening them to provide information in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
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