Comments on: The unlawful arrest & deportation of a British tourist https://groundviews.org/2014/05/08/the-unlawful-arrest-deportation-of-a-british-tourist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-unlawful-arrest-deportation-of-a-british-tourist Journalism for Citizens Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: anu https://groundviews.org/2014/05/08/the-unlawful-arrest-deportation-of-a-british-tourist/#comment-59424 Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:30:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15275#comment-59424 If this happened in a Muslim country she will be stoned to death.
You cannot import anything that disrespect any religion in Sri Lanka. its a law. I dont see anything wrong with it.

]]> By: Fitzpatrick https://groundviews.org/2014/05/08/the-unlawful-arrest-deportation-of-a-british-tourist/#comment-56835 Thu, 08 May 2014 13:21:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15275#comment-56835 Is this news? You are aware that 2 months on Balendran Jeyakumari is still incarcerated with no charges ?

]]> By: Thrishantha Nanayakkara https://groundviews.org/2014/05/08/the-unlawful-arrest-deportation-of-a-british-tourist/#comment-56833 Thu, 08 May 2014 09:21:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15275#comment-56833 Reading several articles by legal experts,
now I realize how the law has been ridiculed by the police and the immigration
officers. Apart from that, I get the feeling that the police and immigration
officers have also been driven by the unofficial law of the country – that is
any act deviating from the established norm of Sinhalese Buddhist street
cult/gang law which keep on changing on a daily basis, will be punished by these gangs with full patronage from
the President (according to BBS, the president has no objection to having a religious
police, except for a manpower problem to recruit officers to enforce such a
force). So, the constitutional police is
confused. They enforce half of law passed by the parliament and a half of BBS
cult/gang law. Naturally they felt a danger to this lady from these gangs, and
found the closest official law they can use to deport this lady in good
intention.

This unofficial religious cult that demands
to discriminate other believes and imposes punishments on those who deviate
from the norms they impose was started by Dharmapala’s and nurtured by
successive Southern Prime Ministers and Presidents including the current
President. What is needed now is a revolution within the legal community first
and the civil society at large, to re-establish rule of law passed by a
parliament that arrests cult law.

All foreign aid should be channeled first
to train Sri Lankan law enforcement officers to follow the proper law, not the
cult law. Any extra funds can be spent on concrete and tar, because concrete
and tar on shaky justice will crack and collapse without doing justice to the
tax payers of the respective countries.

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