Arrest Warrant: Canadian High Commission

Canadian High Commission: In an interview with s Power Play Thursday, the MP for Scarborough-Rouge River described what happened to her when she travelled to Sri Lanka over the holidays for the first time since she left the country 27 years before, according to CTV. Sitsabaiesan said a group of government officials showed up at an orphanage that she was visiting, saying they had a warrant and had come to arrest her. She says she managed to get away from the orphanage and back to her hotel, where she hid until I got confirmation from the Canadian High Commission that there was no arrest warrant in my name and NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan says her experience of being followed and interrogated during a vacation to her native Sri Lanka has strengthened her resolve to defend human rights not only there but around the world. Media reports over the New Years holiday suggested that Sitsabaiesan had been detained and placed under house arrest. She said Thursday that although she was followed and questioned by authorities during her trip, she was never detained, although she had to hide in her hotel room on New Years Eve over fears authorities did indeed have a warrant for her arrest. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.