The Sri Lankan navy has arrested a Tamil youth in Mannar for allegedly sharing videos of “LTTE activities” on social media.
An official navy website reported that the 20-year-old Tamil man was arrested “during a raid carried out at Pesalei area in Mannar”.
It went on to state that the security forces searched his phone and found a “few video clips which contained LTTE activities”, but did not elaborate on what any of these activities were.
They also reported that he was “sharing these videos through social media channels” and therefore they arrested him.
The arrest comes just days after the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) found that photographs of Tamil demonstrations in Britain were shown to the families of asylum seekers throughout the North-East, who are harassed and in some cases physically abused by the security forces, who claim that the activity is linked to the LTTE.
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