The four were detained by the security forces as “LTTE suspects” and held without trial for three and a half years before being released last year after a protracted campaign by the WSWS and the SEP. The Attorney General was finally forced to concede that their confessions, the only evidence against them, were obtained by torture.
“The SEP and WSWS have fought internationally for the freedom of political prisoners consistently over a long period. We were under arrest for a long period in the Kalutara prison in Sri Lanka as suspected supporters of the Tamil liberation organisation. We were released as a result of the SEP campaign. The SEP provided us with legal aid. We request that all attacks on the SEP cease,” their letter stated.
A letter of protest has also been sent from West Bengal in India to the LTTE’s Jaffna Office. Those who signed were DPS, on behalf of workers of the Kharda and Titagar Jute Mills; NS, a veteran educationist in Calcutta and an office bearer of the All Bengal Teachers Association; Mrs GS from the WB Parents and Teachers Association and GD, a retired government clerical servant who has been active in the workers movement since the 1940s when he was a member of the Trotskyist Bolshevik Leninist Party of India (BLPI).
“The SEP and WSWS have fought internationally for the freedom of political prisoners consistently over a long period. We were under arrest for a long period in the Kalutara prison in Sri Lanka as suspected supporters of the Tamil liberation organisation. We were released as a result of the SEP campaign. The SEP provided us with legal aid. We request that all attacks on the SEP cease,” their letter stated.
A letter of protest has also been sent from West Bengal in India to the LTTE’s Jaffna Office. Those who signed were DPS, on behalf of workers of the Kharda and Titagar Jute Mills; NS, a veteran educationist in Calcutta and an office bearer of the All Bengal Teachers Association; Mrs GS from the WB Parents and Teachers Association and GD, a retired government clerical servant who has been active in the workers movement since the 1940s when he was a member of the Trotskyist Bolshevik Leninist Party of India (BLPI).