A van transporting a journalist and the crew were raided by Sri Lanka police less than 24 hours after an interview with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, foreign correspondent Avani Dias has claimed today (16).
In a twitter post by Dias, she claimed that the crew and herself were covering the ongoing protests in Sri Lanka since the beginning of the year and had interviewed President Wickremesinghe yesterday and in less than 24 hours police stopped their vehicle twice with claims that the crew was concealing someone.
Our crew van was pulled over by Sri Lankan police and searched – twice. 'They think we're concealing someone in this car.' #ForeignCorrespondent pic.twitter.com/PSo7srejR4
— ForeignCorrespondent (@ForeignOfficial) September 15, 2022