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(Lanka-e-News-31.Oct.2013, 11.00PM) The Police intelligence arm SIS and officials of the Immigration department who raided the IFJ- FMM media workshop continued the questioning of Jacqueline Park for the second day on 31st. The intelligence officials has brought the paper cuttings of the articles published by the Sunday Leader news paper against the Free Media Movement after its editor Lasantha Wikrematunga was shot dead.
Jacqueline Park is the editor of monthly publication of Australia Media Alliance, the journalists Trade Union with 20,000 members. She has been a trade unionist and a journalist for a long time.
Inelegance officials grilled FMM convenor Sunil Jayasekara for nearly 6 hours on 30 in an apparent attempt to intimidate and stop the media freedom activities of the FMM.
The Rajapaksha regime has accused Jacqueline Park of breaking Sri Lanka Immigration laws by obtaining visitor visa to attend a media workshop.
Before Sri Lanka became a country ruled by the Rajapaksha jungle rule representatives of all most all International Press Freedom organisations visited Sri Lanka on visitor visa and openly engaged in press freedom activities without any hindrance. It was militarised mind set of Gotabhaya Rajapaksha changed that practice in order to restrict international solidarity for media and journalists in Sri Lanka.
Now not only the Rajapaksha regime, but also a police agent cum journalist who is working for the murderous regime has been finding fault with obtaining visitor visa to attend a workshop. Many suspect that this police agent /journalist may have provided more information on other media personal and press freedom leaders who had visited Sri Lanka on visitor visas.
This police agent who living exile and run the website has advised Rajapaksha regime to investigate previous visits by J. Park and that is what exactly regime police men did. This is a warning too all media personal who visit Sri Lanka to report under cover. It was only weeks before that MaRa regime was looking for two Channel 4 under cover journalists in Sri Lanka. This police agent journalist would have dignity informed the regime if he know the names of the two journalists. It is very clear that this agent journalist has taken to duty if providing information to MARA regime on visiting journalists and press freedom advocates.
It was President Rajapaksha himself admitted that this person was one of his agents; further it was the same president who told that this person had served the Premadasa regime too masquerading as a student. Once the student movement unearthed the real role of the ''student'' this person had to move to another area. He served a short period as a convener of the FMM and FMM leadership came under death threats thereafter.
Now this police agent has shown his real face by openly advocating suppression against the FMM and IFJ by the MaRa regime.
