Fears for human rights campaigners in Sri Lanka

A prominent human rights campaigner in Sri Lanka has been detained by police in the former war zone in the north of the country.

Ruki Fernando was detained with Father Praveen, a Catholic priest, as they were looking into the detention of a woman who was campaigning to discover the whereabouts of her missing son conscripted by Tamil Tiger rebels.

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