The Amnesty International, human rights watchdog, has urged Sri Lankan government to immediately release

The Amnesty International, human rights watchdog, has urged Sri Lankan government to immediately release, if in government custody, a prominent human rights activist who is missing for last one year.
The AI also called on authorities to ensure those responsible for the abduction of Pattani Rafeek are brought to justice.
Mr Razeek, the Managing Trustee of the Community Trust Fund (CTF), has disappeared on February 11, 2010 in Polonnaruwa, in north-central Sri Lanka.
The AI in a statement said although the police in Puttalam identified the man they consider the prime suspect in Mr Razeek’s enforced disappearance, failed to question him.
The suspect is a close associate of Sri Lanka’s former Minister for Industry and Commerce, according to the London based rights watchdog.
Yolanda Foster, Amnesty International’s Sri Lanka expert, said: "We understand the person who has been identified as a suspect has a close association with a government official."
The watchdog said that the suspect remains at large and has applied for anticipatory bail.
"A public statement by S. R. M. M. Irshad, Parliamentary Secretary to Minister Rishad Bathiudeen following Mr Razeek’s disappearance claimed that Razeek had been detained by the Secretary of Defence because he had acted as an intermediary to transfer funds to the LTTE," the AI statement said.
-Eelam Nation-