UNHRC meet: TNA raises issue of Tamil activist's arrest
March 15, 2014  13:01
The Tamil National Alliance has raised the issue of the arrest of a Tamil woman activist and her 13-year-old daughter in Sri Lanka's northern Kilinochchi district at the meeting of UN human rights body in Geneva. 

Balendran Jeyakumari and her daughter Vithushaini were arrested in Tharmapuram in Kilinochchi district on Thursday. 

The police had surrounded their house in search of an LTTE operative. 

Ananathy Saseetharan, a woman northern provincial council member from the north, raised the issue of the arrest of mother-daughter duo at the UN Human Rights Council.
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