Sri Lanka: Tamil media worker questioned
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Dec 8, 2023
- Event Description
IBC Tamil media journalist Letchumanan Thevapratheepan, the Batticaloa correspondent, was called to the Valaichchenei police station on 8th December. It was said that he had reported on a Tamil Martyrs memorial held at a burial ground in the Eastern Province. Thevapratheepan was asked to bring the registration certificate of the motorbike he had used to come to the police station and questioned on the Tamil Martyrs memorial held at the burial ground in Tharawi, Batticaloa on 27 November. In addition, the head and six other members of the commemoration committee were also arrested that day by the police and forcibly removed red and yellow flags at the beginning of the commemoration at the Tarawei Maveerar Burial Ground, which was destroyed by the Sri Lanka Army in 2009.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 7.735198946094649
Longitude: 81.69509451944462
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 8 December 2023, Letchumanan Thevapratheepan, media worker, was interrogated by the police for reporting on a commemorative event held by Tamil minority representatives and their arrest by the police in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.