Sri Lanka grants visa to Channel 4 Director Callum Macrae
November 6, 2013 01:08 pm
Channel 4 Director of controvertial documentary ‘No Fire Zonec, Callum Macrae and his team were granted visa to enter Sri Lanka in order to cover the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, the Secretary of the Media Ministry stated.
The controversial director
was earlier denied a visa for India while Media Ministry Secretary Charitha
Herath told Ada Derana that he and his team will be allowed to cover the upcoming
CHOGM later this month.
Macrae,
whose team was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, made news again
last Thursday when UK’s Channel 4 telecast footage acquired from him showing
LTTE TV anchor-actor Isai Priya’s capture during the last phase of the Lankan
war. Priya was found dead on May 18, 2009, with visible marks of torture. The
video was telecast worldwide and caused an uproar that cast a shadow on the
Colombo Commonwealth summit mid-November.
