Two youth arrested on the charge of posting New Year greetings with the LTTE emblem and a picture of Prabhakaran on Facebook were further remanded till August 8 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Lakmali Jayasundara yesterday.
The two suspects Sonu Dinesh Kumar and Vijaya Kumar Vidushan, residents of Ratnapura were arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) following a complaint that they had posted New Year greetings with the LTTE logo and a photo of Prabhakaran damaging the peaceful co-existence among different communities in the country.
When the case was taken up for hearing yesterday, TID officials said they had sought the Attorney General’s instructions.
The suspects had been charged under the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Act No. 56 of 2007.
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