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Scottish protestor to appear at Immigration Department today

08 Aug 2022

BY Buwanajee Coralage  Kayleigh Fraser, the Scottish national whose passport was seized by authorities last week, is scheduled to appear for investigation today (8) at the Department of Immigration and Emigration, The Morning learnt. The officials from the Department of Immigration and Emigration told The Morning that the visa for her visit had been issued for medical reasons, and that further information in this regard would be revealed in the course of the next few days. “She is scheduled to appear for investigation tomorrow, after which more information regarding this case will be made transparent. It must be noted that her visa has been obtained for medical purposes,” said an official from the Department. The Immigration and Emigration Department has claimed that she had remained in Sri Lanka by extending her visa, and had last week provided her seven days to explain the reasons for her extended stay. Earlier, the Police Department launched an investigation into Kayleigh Fraser, better known by her social media name Kayz Fraser, for being actively involved in the anti-President and anti-Government “aragalaya” (struggle) movement centred around Galle Face, through which she has allegedly brought disrepute to Sri Lanka and its Security Forces on the international stage, while the Department of Immigration and Emigration confiscated her passport last Tuesday (2). According to a post on her Instagram account, officials from the Criminal Investigation Department and the Department of Immigration and Emigration had arrived at her residence, where they had allegedly attempted to intimidate her and later confiscated her passport. “After receiving a call from the Immigration and Emigration Department warning me to leave the country now, I now have Immigration and Emigration officers accosting me and intimidating me outside my house, demanding my passport, which they have now taken from me. And so it begins. I also heard them say ‘live video’ halfway through my filming. If any native speaker is willing to carefully listen to what they are saying amongst themselves, that would be useful because it seems to me that they were warning each other that I had a live video on the go,” the Instagram post claimed. When contacted by The Morning, Police Media Spokesman, Senior Superintendent of Police and Attorney-at-Law Nihal Thalduwa said that Fraser had been sharing “negative content” on her Instagram account.  “It is not right for a foreign national to be in our country and share such mass negative content. She is not a journalist either, to be covering the protests and the ‘RanilGoGama’,” he said.


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