(We refer to earlier communications regarding the Sri Lankans Chief Justices proposed visit to Hong Kong to attend a meeting at the City University. Kindly see SRI LANKA: The Sunday Times publishes a false story about the CJ attending a meeting in Hong Kong – http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/1090/, HONG KONG: Chief Justice Sarath Silva will not participate at the City University of Hong Kong Basic Law conference – http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2007statements/1077/, [AHRC Open Letter] HONG KONG: Concerns regarding the participation of Chief Justice Sarath Silva of Sri Lanka in a conference entitled “Hong Kong Basic Law: The First Ten Years and its Future” – http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2007statements/1072/.
Lankaenews June 25, 2007
(LeN-2007 June 25, 7.45 pm) Where has the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva who recently created storms in the local political arena gone when he left for abroad on Saturday? What for? Are the two questions many have begun to raise today.
The questions are being raised as the Chief Justice who was invited to make the key note address on “Basic law and its future” at the Hong Kong City University, has still not reached there.
Executive director of the Asian Human rights Commission Basil Fernando told LeN that the organisation was planning on staging a demonstration on Friday since Silva was scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong on that day but when they inquired regarding this from the University it had told them that he was not arriving. But Fernando said they had to reconfirm regarding the Chief Justice’s arrival since one of the local news papers yesterday published a photograph of Nihal Jayasinghe assuming duties as the actigin chief justice stating that the Chief Justice had gone to Hong Kong, but the university has informed them that he has not arrived at their university.
Sources close to the Chief Justice say that he has gone to India for a private matter and that he is scheduled to arrive in the island on the 27th of this month since there are a couple of cases that demands his presence at the bench.
Meanwhile it is being reported that several high ranking officials in the government have recently held a special discussion regarding the behavior of the CJ after he declared several controversial verdicts in the past couple of weeks.
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