Four Tamils have been arrested at Colombo airport over the last week and are being held in a high security prison in Negombo, JDS reported on Thursday.
Two men were arrested after being deported from Turkey, while a man and a teenage woman were detained as they were about to board a flight to Qatar.
K Rajkumar (36) from Batticaloa and Gengadaran Saranya (19) from Puthukkudiyirippu were arrested on August 18. Police claimed that Mr Rajkumar was on his way to Malta via Italy and that Ms Saranya was going to join her husband in Switzerland, JDS said. They were both charged with carrying forged travel documents wyhen produced before courts by the CID on Wednesday.
Kurunathan Nirushan (26) from Kopay and Frederick Lawrence from Ragama were arrested following their deportation from Turkey on August 16. Both men were charged with possessing false travel documents.
Tamil man arrested and sent to CID for 'rehabilitation' (01 July 2015)
Sixteen Tamils from north-East arrested by Sri Lanka over past 100 days (04 May 2015)
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