Group claims activists arrested for pasting posters, police says otherwise
September 5, 2011 02:23 pm
The People’s Movement to Protect Schools claims four of its activists were arrested last night in the Kurunegala area while they had been pasting posters. The group alleged that the four members had been arrested on two different occasions by Wariyapola Police.
A democratic right to paste even a poster has not been establish, albeit the state of emergency was lifted by the government, its media spokesman Kasun Malinda said in a release today.
It states that two activist pasting posters had been assaulted by certain individuals near Bamunakotuwa Maha Vidyalaya before they were handed over to the police.
The activists were only admitted to the Wariyapola Hospital at 3am today, claims the People’s Movement to Protect Schools.
However, the Wariyapola Police when contacted by Ada Derana said that no arrests were made in the Kurunegala area in connection to any poster pasting incident.
Only two individuals who were behaving in a suspicious manner close to the Bamunakotuwa Maha Vidyalaya had been taken into custody, a spokesperson for the Wariyapola Police stated.
The suspects are scheduled to be produced at court.
A democratic right to paste even a poster has not been establish, albeit the state of emergency was lifted by the government, its media spokesman Kasun Malinda said in a release today.
It states that two activist pasting posters had been assaulted by certain individuals near Bamunakotuwa Maha Vidyalaya before they were handed over to the police.
The activists were only admitted to the Wariyapola Hospital at 3am today, claims the People’s Movement to Protect Schools.
However, the Wariyapola Police when contacted by Ada Derana said that no arrests were made in the Kurunegala area in connection to any poster pasting incident.
Only two individuals who were behaving in a suspicious manner close to the Bamunakotuwa Maha Vidyalaya had been taken into custody, a spokesperson for the Wariyapola Police stated.
The suspects are scheduled to be produced at court.
