Strong words from ACJU rep at press con today. Where was this courage when Muslims were being oppressed by the Rajapakse regime?
Muslim leaders have mostly functioned to keep the community voiceless, obedient & under the regime's control. They don’t represent me.
#GoHomeGota
There was zero evidence against Hejaaz Hizbullah but the government of @GotabayaR and @PresRajapaksa together with @ReAdSarath carried out a witch hunt against Hejaaz and his family just because Hejaaz fought against the constitutional coup in 2018.
#LKA#SriLanka
Hypocritical for those who promoted “one country, one law,” to exempt #PortCity from many laws & practices prevalent in #SriLanka. Equally hypocritical for opposition to object, because they rightly sought to do the same when in power. More in @FT_SriLanka soon.
Today marks one year since Sri Lankan lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah was arbitrarily detained on 14 April 2020.
Denied due process, fair trail and proper access to lawyers and family, he remains in detention without any credible evidence being put before a court.
#JusticeForHejaaz
"රජ මැදුරක ඉපදී හිටියානම්, නුඹත් රජෙකි පුතුණේ" is what came to my mind now after speaking to Niyas the poor father of 2 month old #SriLankan baby Mohammed who was cremated without reason, without notifying his family & in a cardboard box with no death certificate issued to date.
Proof against Health Minister Pavitra’s blatant lie in parliament today!!!
The scientists and virologist committee was shunned when they spoke the truth!!!
පවිත්රාගේ බොරුව - pure racism in forced cremations! That's it.
“With more than 85,000 published scientific literature on COVID19, not a single case has been reported due to virus through a dead body.” - College of Community Physicians from their position paper on the mandatory cremation of COVID-19 deceased.
#StopForcedCremations
Buddhist monks representing 21,000 strong Amarapura & Ramanna chapter Sangha Sabahawa, through its inter-religious committee, officially writes to @GotabayaR urging to intervene in upholding #COVID19 burial rights.
Co-signed by Catholic Christian Hindu Islamic religious leaders.
The Church of Ceylon Statement on #HumanRightsDay highlights the use of lethal force on prisoners, and the unacceptable deprivation of liberty of AAL Hejaaz Hizbullah and SSP Shani Abeysekera...
#HumanRights#RuleOfLaw#SriLanka
Spoke to Fahim, the distraught father of Shaykh, the 20 day old infant who was forcibly cremated yesterday. Upon arriving at LRH at 10 pm on Monday night, the baby was subject to antigen testing which indicated positive, while both himself & his wife’s results were negative. (1)
When other news media actively distort the news and publish only part of a story that shows Hejaaz in bad light, you can always trust @FT_SriLanka to report all the FACTS.
https://t.co/HJKw4jN3yf
Your loyalty is supposed to be your country, not it’s government.
And till our people understand that, we will never have room for progress. We are enablers of their corruption as much as they initiate it. We keep voting for the thieves and point fingers calling them that.