Sri Lanken journalist J. S. Tissainayagam what did he said to bbc

ayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam (known as J. S. Tissainayagam,  is a Sri Lankan journalist. He was arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division of the Sri Lanka Police on March 7, 2008 and indicted five months later under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. On August 31, 2009 he was convicted by the Colombo High Court and sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for inciting communal violence through his writings and receiving money from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a banned terrorist group in Sri Lanka. On 15 September 2009 Tissainayagam launched an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal. He was released on bail by the Court of Appeal on 11 January 2010 on medical grounds. On May 3, 2010, World Press Freedom Day, it was announced that Tissainayagam would be pardoned by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa but to date he hasn't been officially pardoned