Arrested for pasting Sathhanda posters

Nov 07, 2015

The Panadura police have arrested few people yesterday 6th who were pasting posters for the weekly release of the Sathhanda edition coming on this Sunday.

 

The arrest has been made citing it’s an anti government poster. Following the arrest few hours later the people arrested were released on the order of a senior police officer in the police headquarters.

During the last general election businessmen Ravi Wijerathna and Ruwan Ferdinands jointly started the Sathhanda newspaper and following the election when Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe told ravi Wijerathna that he would not give financial support the newspaper was sold.

Later Ruwan Ferdinands sold the newspaper to businessmen named Sidney Gajanayake who was the chairman of a state institution under the agricultural ministry