10/01/2010
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CNN
Colombo, Sri Lanka(CNN) -- Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's former armed forces chief who led troops to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels last year, has been moved to a high security prison, officials said Friday.
09/10/2010
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Sunday Observer
A new prison, with an extent of two and half acres, will be built in Jaffna at a cost of Rs. 272 million, the Prison and Prison’s Rehabilitation Ministry sources said.
08/12/2010
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Maple Ridge News
While two already crowded Maple Ridge prisons are preparing to house up to 200 Tamil asylum seekers, the union that represents prison guards in B.C. is worrying the influx will endanger its employees – and the refugees.
06/24/2010
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Colombo Today
Jun 24, 2010 2:35 PM · After 45 years, the Department of Prisons is to set up a prison in Jaffna, reports say.
01/13/2010
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BBC
A Sri Lankan newspaper editor jailed for 20 years has left prison for the first time since March 2008 after a court ordered him to be freed on bail.
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01/11/2010
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Lines
Against the backdrop of minority voters being potential king makers in the upcoming elections, there was an announcement in Colombo today that Tissainayagam would be released on bail - the Attorney General who had been blocking bail until then announced last month that he has no objections and this opened the way to the release. It is as if the Big Bad Wolf told Red Riding Hood he had become a vegetarian after eating her grandmother. In previous lines posts, contributors have drawn attention to the Tissainayagam saga as a window into the draconian marriage of racism and authoritarianism that has been the hallmark of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). This latest development underscores the extent to which the Rakapakse government added callous opportunism to complete the trinity of crimes that accompany the PTA – it served the government’s political ends to jail Tissainayagam yesterday, and it serves its political ends to release Tissanayagam today. It is not everyday that crass opportunism coincides with a journalist’s liberty – there will undoubtedly be much celebration of the latter, along side clear sighted condemnation of the former.