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US activist wrongly identified as Sri Lankan bombing suspect
Source: Agence France-Presse
US activist wrongly identified as Sri Lankan bombing suspect
Agence France-Presse in Colombo
Fri 26 Apr 2019 10.45 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Apr 2019 11.28 BST
Sri Lankan police have apologised after wrongly identifying a female American Muslim activist as a suspect in the deadly Easter bombings.
On Thursday, police issued a flyer with the names and photos of six people – three men and three women – wanted in connection with attacks that killed more than 250 people.
Among those listed was a woman identified as Abdul Cader Fathima Khadhiya, accompanied by a photo of a woman in a headscarf purported to be the individual wanted for questioning.
But the photo in fact showed Amara Majeed, an American Muslim whose parents are Sri Lankan immigrants and who wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump in 2015 about his rhetoric on Muslims.
“Hello everyone! I have this morning been falsely identified by the Sri Lankan government as one of the isis Easter attackers in Sri Lanka,” Majeed wrote on her Facebook page.
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Agence France-Presse in Colombo
Fri 26 Apr 2019 10.45 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Apr 2019 11.28 BST
Sri Lankan police have apologised after wrongly identifying a female American Muslim activist as a suspect in the deadly Easter bombings.
On Thursday, police issued a flyer with the names and photos of six people – three men and three women – wanted in connection with attacks that killed more than 250 people.
Among those listed was a woman identified as Abdul Cader Fathima Khadhiya, accompanied by a photo of a woman in a headscarf purported to be the individual wanted for questioning.
But the photo in fact showed Amara Majeed, an American Muslim whose parents are Sri Lankan immigrants and who wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump in 2015 about his rhetoric on Muslims.
“Hello everyone! I have this morning been falsely identified by the Sri Lankan government as one of the isis Easter attackers in Sri Lanka,” Majeed wrote on her Facebook page.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/26/sri-lankan-police-apologise-for-wrongly-identifying-suspect