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Sri Lanka deports arrested Indian journalist
"I was tortured psychologically by the Lankan army personnel," Prabakaran said soon after landing in Chennai. Speaking to reporters at the airport, Prabhakaran denied violating any rules while visiting Killinochchi. "I will fight for the Tamil cause and will approach the UN Human Rights Council against the abuses by Sri Lanka," he said.
Prabhakaran was arrested by the Lankan army personnel for allegedly filming military installations in Killinochchi, a former LTTE stronghold, without media credentials.
Prabakaran was deported and sent back on a Chennai flight at 6.40pm (local time), police spokesman Ajith Rohana said in Colombo.
Prabakaran was earlier handed over to immigration authorities after being questioned by the police's Terrorism Investigation Division. After the questioning, all the footage shot by Prabakaran was deleted. "As such there was no reason for him to be prosecuted," Rohana said.
Prabakaran, arrested on Wednesday, allegedly filmed a military camp, a road and buildings devastated during the ethnic war. Police said Prabakaran had arrived in Sri Lanka on a tourist visa and violated rules by not informing authorities that he was on an assignment to report from the former war zone.
Local media described him as a LTTE sympathiser. Indian diplomats were granted consular access to Prabakaran before he was deported. There is no official censorship in Sri Lanka but foreign journalists have to submit their passport to the military before entering the erstwhile LTTE stronghold.(Times of India)
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