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SL tells UK to honour obligation

20 Oct 2019

The Sri Lankan Government has urged the UK to honour its obligation as per the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. A statement by the Foreign Ministry yesterday (19) noted that the retrial in the case of Majuran Sathananthan vs. Brigadier Andige Priyanka Indunil Fernando commenced at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 18 October. During the proceedings, the Court heard the private prosecution’s case with prosecution witnesses giving evidence. At the end of the day’s hearing, the Chief Magistrate adjourned Court until 19 November, when the defence case would be further heard by the Court. The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said that on 1 February 2019, the Chief Magistrate of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court withdrew an earlier arrest warrant issued on Brigadier Priyanka Fernando on 21 January 2019 by an initial lay bench of the Magistrates’ Court, citing a series of procedural flaws. On 15 March 2019, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court had expunged an earlier conviction on Brigadier Fernando made under Sections 4 and 5 of the Public Order Act of the UK, and determined that “the defendant was convicted without representation”, and cited “a series of mistakes or errors that has led to procedural unfairness”, and called for a retrial under Section 142 of the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980. The Foreign Ministry said that the Government of Sri Lanka continues to maintain that Brigadier Fernando, as a diplomat who was attached to the Sri Lanka High Commission in London, is entitled to diplomatic immunity as per the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. The Government of the UK has been requested to honour this obligation, which is reciprocal. A case was filed against Brigadier Priyanka Fernando for making repeated “slit throat” gestures at LTTE sympathisers outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London last year.

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