Their decision follows the Colombo magistrate’s court on March 06 having rejected a bail application filed by Balendran Jeyakumary, who has been detained for nearly one year without charges.

Lawyers and civil society activists have met and decided to meet the president, the prime minister, the ministers of foreign affairs and justice as well as the attorney general and discuss a solution.

Meanwhile, foreign affairs minister Mangala Samaraweera told Sri Lanka Mirror that there was strong suspicion that military intelligence personal loyal to former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa were sabotaging the new government’s measures to build better relations with other countries.

He was responding to a question raised with regard the continued detention of Jeyakumary and the arrest of Tamil returnees at the airport.