A group of unknown persons had gone in search of media rights activist and ‘Irudina’ newspaper journalist Dileesha Abeysundera to her Borella residence around 11.45 p.m. on Monday night, according to a complaint lodged by her, at the Borella Police.

Dileesha, who is also the Deputy Secretary of the Free Media Movement and Secretary of the National Forum For Journalists, told The Island that she had got home after work around 10 p.m. on Monday night.

"At about 11.45 p.m, someone kept banging on the house gate, while calling out my name. On being woken by the noise, I opened the door slightly while the gate was still locked and inquired as to who it was", she said. "The person at the gate asked if Dileesha Abeysundera of the Sunday Leader lived here. I replied that there was no such person in this house and closed the door. About this time it started raining. Subsequently, I heard a few persons talking outside. About ten minutes later they left in a vehicle."

Asked if she suspected any motive for the visit by unknown persons so late in the night, Dileesha said she believed it was someone trying to frighten her, because she was involved in campaigning for media rights. "In fact that night I had returned after organising yesterday’s meeting held at the J.R. Jayewardena Centre, which called for the abolition of the draconian provisions in the Press Councils Act."