The lawyers have told jdslanka.org website that they hope she would be released today itself if the application is accepted.

The magistrate on February 24, for the sixth time, put off the hearing until March 10, due to TID’s usual request for time.

Three children

Jeyakumary and Vibhushika, her daughter aged 13 years, were arrested by the TID in Kilinochchi on 13 March 2014, on the charge of harbouring a suspect wanted by police.

Jeyakumary was taken to Boossa detention camp on detention orders, while her daughter was handed to the custody of Mahadevan children’s home in Kilinochchi, which comes under the probation and childcare department.

Her husband died due to a cancer, and her eldest son, 20-year-old labourer Balendran Yohan was gunned down by paramilitaries in 2006.

The second son, Balendran Kajivan died in shelling as he was on his way to government controlled areas during the final days of the war. On the same day, Jeyakumar’s third son Balendran Mahendran surrendered to the military at Mullavellivaikkal, but he remains missing.

The mother and daughter saw a picture of him at a government rehabilitation camp, but authorities denied having such a person under their custody.

FR petitions

On 14 January 2014, she filed a fundamental rights petition with Jaffna’s human rights commission, and became a leading activist of the families of missing persons. Both Jeyakumary and Vibhushika are participants of protests to demand the government to find missing persons.

Following their arrest, they filed FR petitions in the Supreme Court on 12 May 2014, and both will be taken up on March 13.

There is intense international pressure for the release of Balendran Jeyakumary.