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Assault on female activist

01:01 Jul 14 2018 Vaddukoddai Divisional Hospital, Vallai - Telippalai - Araly, Vaddukkodai, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka

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An activist who was assisting families of disappeared and their lawyers in several Habeas Corpus cases against the Army was brutally attacked with an iron rod in Vaddukoddai in the Jaffna district on 14th of July. She had been riding her bicycle with her young son when she was hit with an iron rod by an unidentified man. The incident had happened near a Police station. She was hospitalized with injuries on her face and head. The Habeas Corpus cases, are being heard in Jaffna courts in relation to the disappearance of over two dozen Tamil youths in 1996, after having been detained by the Sri Lankan army.
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District: Jaffna

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