Colombo, June 7 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government has reportedly expelled a senior official from the UK-based Channel 4 after a report said the country's armed forces may have committed war crimes.
Stuart Cosgrove and his wife Shirani Sabaratnam were placed on a 'blacklist', after Channel 4 News made the 'anti-government' remarks.
Cosgrove's wife was refused a visa and turned back from the airport, The BBC reports.
The Sri Lankan Government said Cosgrove , Channel 4's head of diversity, was forced to leave the country shortly after he arrived.
The official in charge of immigration said that Cosgrove's expulsion 'was not a deportation', but added that he had simply been 'instructed to leave'.
When asked why they had been blacklisted, the immigration official said that 'they are from Channel 4, which without reason has harmed Sri Lanka's reputation.'
He further said that Cosgrove and his wife, who is of Sri Lankan Tamil origin, were on a watchlist of people not wanted in Sri Lanka. (ANI)
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