BTF calls on the UK Government to carry out a full investigation of a British Citizen in a SL prison

 Wednesday, 26 February 2014 

Mr Visvalingam Kobithas of Chessington, Surrey, a British Tamil who was arrested in Sri Lanka in 2007 and detained without charge for over eight years, was found dead on the bathroom floor of “C” Division, Magazine prison on 24 February 2014.

Previously, on 13 November 2011, he was stripped naked and attacked by fellow prisoners; he also narrowly escaped another attack in January 2012.

Mr Kobithas’s wife, Senthilrani Kobithas, and two teenage children live in the UK and have not seen him for eight years.

British Tamils Forum urges the UK government to investigate in detail the death of Mr Kobithas, just as it should investigate the death of any other British Citizen detained abroad, and to take robust action to ensure that those responsible for his death are brought to justice.