Returned asylum seekers detained by police

29 September, 2011

Police at Colombo airport had detained fifty deportees flown back to the country on Thursday after being expelled from Britain.

United Kingdom Border Agency chartered a flight to repatriate eight women and forty two men to Sri Lanka.

Most of them are ethnic Tamil asylum seekers.

Fear of detention

Colombo airport officials say the returnees were held by police for questioning.

In June, a group of twenty Sri Lankans were sent back from Britain in an earlier chartered flight.    Full Story>>>