Sri Lanka's disappeared journalists' wife says she was insulted by state officials at UNHRC session

The wife of Sri Lanka's disappeared journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, Sandhya Ekneligoda said after returning to the island from Geneva that she was insulted by the officials of Sri Lanka's delegation to US Human Rights Council.

She said that after participating in a side event at UN Human Rights Council on March19th 4 p.m. in which she spoke about disappeared persons of Sri Lanka, state official Douglas Wickramarathna asked her how she could become a victim since she came smiling. She further pointed out that certain others that gathered around her said they knew what happened to her husband and warned her not to betray the country.

Denying such allegations, she said she achieved her target of focusing the attention of the international community to the problems of the disappeared persons of Sri Lanka through her representation at the UN Human Rights Council.
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