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Court Proceedings:2015
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January - 24 
The Court of Appeal in Sri Lanka on January 27 will take up a Writ Application filed by the Marxist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) seeking an order to arrest and prosecute former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page on January 25.
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The Court of Appeal in Sri Lanka on January 27 will take up a Writ Application filed by the Marxist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) seeking an order to arrest and prosecute former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page on January 25. The petition was filed in the Court of Appeal on January 19 and has sought Writs of Mandamus to arrest KP and produce him in Court to investigate the offences committed by him and to initiate judicial proceedings against him. The petition demanded the arrest and trial of the former LTTE leader who is believed to be the head of the international wing of the terrorist organization. KP is currently operating a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) under military protection in the Northern Province. Pathmanathan was an international arms smuggler who procured weapons worth billions of dollars for the terrorist organization that ravaged a deadly war in Sri Lanka for 30 years. He was involved in arms smuggling operations across Asia, Canada, United States (US) and Europe. Sri Lankan authorities arrested KP in Malaysia in August 2009 and brought to Sri Lanka. He was under the protective custody of the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government.
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January - 27 
The Appeal Court of Sri Lanka on January 27 issued notice on the Attorney General to appear before the Court on February 5 in connection with the writ application filed by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Leader, Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP
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The Appeal Court of Sri Lanka on January 27 issued notice on the Attorney General to appear before the Court on February 5 in connection with the writ application filed by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Leader, Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page. The notice was issued when the petition was taken up for hearing before Justice A.H.M.D. Nawaz and Justice Vijith Malalgoda. The petition, filed in the Court of Appeal last week by JVP, sought Writs of Mandamus to arrest KP and produce him in Court to investigate the offences committed by him and to initiate judicial proceedings against him.
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February - 5 
A Sri Lankan Court on February 5 issued an order preventing the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP from leaving the country, reports Colombo Page. The Court of Appeal issued the order barring Pathmanathan from traveling overseas. The Court granted the
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A Sri Lankan Court on February 5 issued an order preventing the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP from leaving the country, reports Colombo Page. The Court of Appeal issued the order barring Pathmanathan from traveling overseas. The Court granted the motion of order as a sub decision based upon a petition filed by the Marxist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). The Court had informed the Department of Immigration and Emigration asking them not permit Pathmanathan to leave the country until the end of the trial.
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February - 19 
The Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka on February 19 requested more time from the Court of Appeal to decide on former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page. Deputy Solicitor General Suhada Gamlath informed the Appeal Court that th
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The Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka on February 19 requested more time from the Court of Appeal to decide on former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page. Deputy Solicitor General Suhada Gamlath informed the Appeal Court that the Attorney General’s Department required more time to decide on the nature of action to be taken against KP. He made this submission when a petition filed by the Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) seeking KP's arrest was taken up for hearing. The case has now been put off till February 26.
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March - 10 
A Sri Lankan court on March 10 released the Tamil woman activist, Balendran Jeyakumari who has been held in detention for nearly a year for allegedly harbouring a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fugitive, reports Colombo Page. Acting Police Media Spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent of Pol
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A Sri Lankan court on March 10 released the Tamil woman activist, Balendran Jeyakumari who has been held in detention for nearly a year for allegedly harbouring a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fugitive, reports Colombo Page. Acting Police Media Spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ruwan Gunasekara said Colombo Magistrate Court released Jeyakumari on conditional bail after spending nearly a year in the Boossa detention camp. However, the Additional Magistrate has banned her from leaving the country as part of the bail conditions given to her by the Court. She is also required to report to police station closest to her residence every month, ASP Gunasekara said. The court also released six other activists along with Jeyakumari. Balendran Jeyakumari along with her 13-year-old daughter was arrested on March 13, 2014 in Kilinochchi in Kilinochchi District, Northern Province for allegedly sheltering an LTTE cadre, named Gopi, who shot a Police inspector in Kilinochchi during an arrest. Her daughter was handed over to Child Protection Services while the mother was sent to Boossa detention camp. The mother and daughter were active participants in most protests conducted by families of the disappeared in the Northern Province. Jeyakumari has led protest campaigns in the North demanding to find out what happened to the youngest of her three sons, who had joined the LTTE as a child soldier and went missing after he reportedly surrendered to the Sri Lankan Security Forces (SFs) at the end of the war. Her other two sons reportedly belong to LTTE, had been killed in the war. However, Tamil parties in the North say she was arrested for the involvement in protests to find missing persons.
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March - 13 
A Sri Lankan court on March 13 released a former leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Sea Tiger women's wing on conational bail when she was produced in court, reports Colombo Page. Police spokesman, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ruwan Gunasekara said Colombo Additional M
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A Sri Lankan court on March 13 released a former leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Sea Tiger women's wing on conational bail when she was produced in court, reports Colombo Page. Police spokesman, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ruwan Gunasekara said Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attigala released the former LTTE leader Murugesu Jayaganesh Pakeerathy on a personal bail of LKR 200,000. The suspected LTTE leader was ordered to hand over her passport to the court and appear before a Police Station once a week. Earlier on March 3 the Police arrested Pakeerathy at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo while she was about to leave for France with her eight-year-old daughter. The authorities initially detained her for 72-hours pending investigations by the Terrorism Investigations Division (TID) and the detention was extended to 90 days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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March - 27 
The Kilinochchi Magistrate's Court in Kilinochchi District in Northern Province on March 27 ordered the immediate release of Balendran Vibushika, the daughter of Tamil activist Balendran Jeyakumari, who was transferred to probationary custody in a children's home in Kilinochchi after her mother was
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The Kilinochchi Magistrate's Court in Kilinochchi District in Northern Province on March 27 ordered the immediate release of Balendran Vibushika, the daughter of Tamil activist Balendran Jeyakumari, who was transferred to probationary custody in a children's home in Kilinochchi after her mother was arrested in March 2014, from probation, reports Colombo Page.
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April - 30 
Five Dutch nationals of Sri Lankan origin have been jailed for between nineteen months and six years three months for raising money for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), reports Colombo Page on May 1. The appeal court ruled the five, who range in age from 43 to 60, were members of the LTTE an
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Five Dutch nationals of Sri Lankan origin have been jailed for between nineteen months and six years three months for raising money for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), reports Colombo Page on May 1. The appeal court ruled the five, who range in age from 43 to 60, were members of the LTTE and had raised money for the terror group between 2003 and 2010. The charges involved threatening people who refused to make donations and organizing illegal lotteries, the court said.
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May - 20 
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on May 20 has lifted the stay on the transfer of 818 acres of land in Sampur area in Eastern Province to the displaced Tamils after the displaced appealed to the court to return the land, reports Colombo Page. Earlier, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian MA Sumant
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on May 20 has lifted the stay on the transfer of 818 acres of land in Sampur area in Eastern Province to the displaced Tamils after the displaced appealed to the court to return the land, reports Colombo Page. Earlier, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran submitted an intervention to the Supreme Court demanding return of appropriated lands to listed individuals from Sampur. The bench, headed by Chief Justice S Sripavan accepted the plea of the counsel for the displaced families that the Government had consistently held that the lands seized by the military in 2006-07 during the height of war in the Eastern Province would be returned to the displaced Tamils of the area.
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June - 25 
Colombo High Court on June 25 handed over death sentence to Staff Sergeant Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Sunil Rathnayake for murdering eight Tamil civilians in Jaffna District in 2000, reports Colombo Page. The High Court heard the case where Rathnayake and four others were charged with the murders. Rath
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Colombo High Court on June 25 handed over death sentence to Staff Sergeant Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Sunil Rathnayake for murdering eight Tamil civilians in Jaffna District in 2000, reports Colombo Page. The High Court heard the case where Rathnayake and four others were charged with the murders. Rathnayake was the first accused of the case. However, the court acquitted the other four defendants for lack of evidence against them. The group of Tamils including two children were believed to have been abducted on December 19, 2000 and killed. Their bodies were found in a mass grave, about 16 miles east of Jaffna town.
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July - 3 
Polonnaruwa High Court on July 3 sentenced Sivaraja Jenivan alias Mohommadu Sulthan Cader Mohideen, a former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre to a 10 year prison term for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Maithripala Sirisena in 2006, reports Colombo Page. Jenivan
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Polonnaruwa High Court on July 3 sentenced Sivaraja Jenivan alias Mohommadu Sulthan Cader Mohideen, a former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre to a 10 year prison term for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Maithripala Sirisena in 2006, reports Colombo Page. Jenivan was charged with setting up a claymore mine in an attempt to assassinate President Sirisena when he was the Minister of Mahaweli Development. He was arrested while travelling in a bus from Polonnaruwa to Batticaloa on April 23, 2006.
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August - 31 
On August 31, Sri Lanka's Attorney General's (AG) Department told the Court of Appeal that no crimes involving the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP have been found during their examination, reports Colombo Page. The examination was carried out by th
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On August 31, Sri Lanka's Attorney General's (AG) Department told the Court of Appeal that no crimes involving the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP have been found during their examination, reports Colombo Page. The examination was carried out by the AG Department in response to a writ petition filed by JVP Propaganda Secretary Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath citing that no legal measures have been taken against KP. Herath filed a suit in the Court of Appeal seeking the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus for the arrest of KP allegedly for his role as an LTTE arms dealer and in the killing of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The Court of Appeal earlier directed the AG to conduct an examination on the 193 allegations in the petition which include money laundering and procurement of arms.
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October - 28 
Attorney General on October 28 filed four reports with the Court of Appeal on the activities of former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page. The court was informed of the reports filed by the Attorney General when a petition filed by Jan
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Attorney General on October 28 filed four reports with the Court of Appeal on the activities of former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, reports Colombo Page. The court was informed of the reports filed by the Attorney General when a petition filed by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Member of Parliament, Vijitha Herath was taken to consideration by the Appeals Court. Herath has filed a suit in the Court of Appeal seeking the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus for the arrest of Pathmanathan allegedly for his role as an LTTE arms dealer and in the killing of Rajiv Gandhi.
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November - 4 
21 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects detained in prisons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on November 4 have requested the courts to release them without rehabilitation, reports, Colombo Page. When 23 LTTE suspects, who are in remand custody on alleged involvement in LTTE t
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21 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects detained in prisons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on November 4 have requested the courts to release them without rehabilitation, reports, Colombo Page. When 23 LTTE suspects, who are in remand custody on alleged involvement in LTTE terrorist activities, were produced in the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, it was revealed that only two of them were willing to undergo rehabilitation. The other suspects have said that they oppose the rehabilitation and demanded the court to release them. They said they will resume the death unto fast if they were not released.
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November - 13 
24 ex- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) combatants who were detained for years under the PTA were released in Colombo on November 13 on strict bail conditions after providing sureties from their places of residence, reports Daily Mirror. They are a section of the 31 ex-LTTE detainees, who wer
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24 ex- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) combatants who were detained for years under the PTA were released in Colombo on November 13 on strict bail conditions after providing sureties from their places of residence, reports Daily Mirror. They are a section of the 31 ex-LTTE detainees, who were earlier released on strict bail conditions by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on November 11 but had to return to prison because they were unable to provide sureties as specified by Court.
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November - 16 
Eight ex- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects who were detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) were released on bail in Colombo on November 16, reports Colombo Page. Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attygalle ordered to release the suspects on two sureties of SLR one mil
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Eight ex- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects who were detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) were released on bail in Colombo on November 16, reports Colombo Page. Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attygalle ordered to release the suspects on two sureties of SLR one million each. The court ordered the released prisoners to confirm their permanent addresses and to inform the court if there was any change in their permanent addresses. They were also restricted from traveling abroad.
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December - 11 
The Presidential Commission Investigating Cases of Missing Persons (PCICMP) began its public sittings to hear cases of missing in Jaffna District on December 11, reports Colombo Page. Secretary of the Commission HW Gunadasa said the Commission has received 100 new complaints during the first two day
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The Presidential Commission Investigating Cases of Missing Persons (PCICMP) began its public sittings to hear cases of missing in Jaffna District on December 11, reports Colombo Page. Secretary of the Commission HW Gunadasa said the Commission has received 100 new complaints during the first two days of sessions in Jaffna District till December 13. The Secretary said it has received 1,620 complaints including new complaints to hear during this sitting. The Commission will continue its Public Sittings in various parts of the North and East.
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