The main news item appeared in NAFSO blog today is about the in human treatments to the 103 Sri Lankan fishermen whom  are detained in Indian jails. The main claim is that the provide of single meal per day. This is really unacceptable situation though those fishermen were caught now and detain in a foreign jail.
In another news item appeared on the Sunday Times news paper yesterday[24/11] the deputy fisheries minister Sarath Gunaratne has claimed that those Sri Lankan fishermen were attempted to sail to the Arabian Seas through an innocent passage and were caught by the Indian coast guards. Nimal Hettiarachchi, the Director General of Fisheries Department also proved this information as correct one.
We do not know the actual situation. Sri Lankan fishermen are known as the poachers in to other territories and this put them in to vulnerable situation though they are innocent or not. However, the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea says, the human treatment and the immediate repatriation of the fishermen once arrested beyond the national boundaries.
We URGE, all concern parties to take measures to treat those fishermen HUMANELY and provide necessary assistance to repatriate those fishermen as soon as possible.
Sri Lankan fishermen or Indian fishermen[or even Pakistan or Bangladesh fishermen] should not be caught between the political games of the countries and should not treat them as enemies or political opponents at all.
We urge JUSTICE and FAIR treatment to all fishermen.
Herman