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On 21st of June, two freelance journalists Pradeepan Thambithurai and Dharmalingam Paramasivan from Jaffna and Kilinochchi respectively were summoned to the he special crimes branch to the office of the Kilinochchi Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and questioned them regarding an incident they reported. The Police have interrogated them for around 2 hours regarding their video footage of the incident in which state intelligence officials have obstructed a meeting organised by the Jaffna district MP and Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam. The incident is mentioned in detail in the next section. The Police have repeatedly asked them to reveal their sources, and how they received video footage, which they had denied.