UN special rapporteur to visit Sri Lanka next week
Sun, Nov 24, 2013, 09:13 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Nov 24, Colombo: Sri Lanka' External Affairs Ministry has announced that a special representative of the United Nations in Geneva will be visiting the country next week.
Secretary to the Ministry Karunathilaka Amunugama has told local media that Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Dr. Chaloka Beyani will be arriving in the island on the 2nd of December.

During his visit Dr. Beyani is scheduled to tour the conflict-affected North. He is also scheduled to meet and External affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris and several other Ministers.
Poet Jeyapalan to be deported following investigations

By Zahrah Imtiaz-Tuesday, 26 Nov 2013

Immigration Controller Chulananda Perera says, “Poet Jeyapalan will not be immediately deported from Sri Lanka and that investigations into his conduct during his stay in the country are underway.”

Sri Lankan born, Norwegian Tamil poet and actor V.I.S. Jeyapalan was arrested on the 22 November for attending a function at the Jaffna Press Club on 18 November.

Sources reveal that media personalities as well as other members of the Jaffna community were present at the event as they wanted an audience with the actor who won the National Award for his acting in the Tamil movie Aadukalam.

Those who were present say that they only wanted to meet him as they were great fans of his films.

Perera however revealed that, “Jeyapalan had violated his visa regulations as he visited the country on a tourist visa but took part in a political meeting which he was not sanctioned to attend. The CID arrested him and handed him over to us and we are currently conducting our own investigations into the matter.”

Jeyapalan is currently detained at the Mirihana Detention Center. (Ceylon Today Online)