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Ada Derana.lk: Sri Lanka urged to release Ukrainian captain after 3 years of detention

Published July 11, 2019. Updated July 11 at 9:39 am

The Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Canberra (L02) arrives at the main port in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on March 23, 2019. - Some 1,000 Australian security personnel in four naval ships and a military aircraft are participating in the biggest joint exercise yet with their Sri Lankan counterparts. Australian forces will move on to India on March 30 then Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore before returning to Darwin.

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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) today called on the Sri Lankan government to immediately release Ukrainian seafarer Captain Gennadiy Gavrylov and allow him to return to his home in Ukraine.

“For over three years, Gennadiy Gavrylov has been stranded in Sri Lanka desperate to go home, while Sri Lankan authorities refuse to grant him permission to leave the country,” said ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton.