The Fort Magistrate’s Court issued an order prohibiting any ‘Thileepan Commemoration’ event in Fort, Kompanna Veediya, and Colpetty police jurisdictions today (19).
Accordingly, the order will be effective from 12 noon to 10 PM today (19).
A group of civil society activists have organised a commemoration event in Maradana today to remember then LTTE Political Wing Leader in Jaffna Thileepan who died from a hunger strike in 1987.
Meanwhile, Maligakanda Magistrate also issued an order prohibiting Thileepan commemoration in Maradana.