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Madushanka case: Pakistani activist to intervene
View(s):Pakistan’s former Federal Minister for Human Rights and leading human rights and civil rights activist Ansar Burney has pledged to intervene in the case of a young Sri Lankan man who is under detention for over nine months for his alleged role in a plot to assassinate the President of the Maldives. Lahiru Madushanka (24) has been under detention since October last year in the Maldives for his alleged involvement in the assassination plot and has been refused bail several times despite attempts by his lawyers to get him released.
Mr. Burney, who is also a former United Nations Expert Adviser on Human Rights, met Mr. Madushanka’s family members in Colombo this week and assured he would intervene in the case after studying the legal documents.Family members have denied that Mr. Madushanka was in anyway involved in the plot to kill Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen. They said he had visited the Maldives to take up a job offer when he was arrested. Mr. Burney asked Mr. Madushanka’s family members to get the legal documents from the Maldives court for him to familiarise himself with the case.