On Mar 30, 1:17=A0pm, Lanka news <rupasi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> TID seeks permission to seal Tissainayagam's house
> [TamilNet, Sunday, 30 March 2008, 12:20 GMT]
> The Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lanka Police on
> Friday filed a motion in the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court seeking
> an order to seal the house of J.S.Tissanayagam a senior journalist and
> Sunday Times columnist now under detention since his arrest on March
> 6, legal sources said. Meanwhile, Free Media Movement (FMM), joined by
> four other journalists associations, embarked on a world-wide campaign
> to pressure Colombo to free the journalist who has been held in
> detention for more than three weeks without charges.
>
> Poster released by Journalist Associations calling for Tissainayagam's
> release
> TID said in the filed motion that the detectives need to carry out
> search when necessary, and therefore, and requested the court to issue
> an order to seal the house, legal sources said.
>
> The house of the journalist was searched soon after his arrest and
> detention.
>
> Meanwhile, the inquiry into the Fundamental Rights violation petition
> filed by journalist Tissanayagam challenging the legality of his
> arrest and detention has been fixed for March 31 Monday.
>
> The FR petition was mentioned on Thursday before a three member bench
> of the Supreme Court comprised Justices Asoka de Silva, Nimal
> Dissanayake and Raja Fernando. Counsel for the petitioner, in his
> submission, cited an earlier order of the Chief Justice in which he
> ruled that even persons detained by the TID could not be held
> indefinitely, and begged for his release, legal sources said.
>
> The Judges said that the FR petition could be taken up on Monday in
> the presence of the Chief Justice as the latter had made the earlier
> order pertaining to the detention of Tamils, legal sources said.
>
> Defense Counsel brought to the notice of the court that the State
> Counsel had failed to produce any detention order in relation to the
> petitioner's arrest even though the court had asked for such proof.
> Hence the court directed the State Counsel to produce such detention
> order on the next date (Monday).
>
> President's Counsel Romesh de Silva with J.C.Weliamunna and
> M.A.Sumenthiran appeared for the petitioner.
Can anyone think of a way of helping from abroad? Any petitions one
can sign online?
I am a Canadian who worked with Tissa in Colombo last year.
-Munir Squires
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