Jeyakumari Balendran, an activist against involuntary disappearances, who was arrested by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) in March 2014 was released on bail today by Colombo Magistrate Court, 362 days after her detention.

She was barred from foreign travels and was ordered to report to police every month.

She was at the forefront in campaigns against involuntary disappearances, raising concern about her son who reportedly went missing in the final phase of the war. She was arrested with her daughter Vibhoosika. While the daughter was transferred to probationary custody in a children’s home, Jeyakumari continued to be detained with no charges filed.

Sri Lankan authorities had maintained that she harbored Selvanayagam Kajeepan alias Gobi, who allegedly tried reviving a network of the rebel Tigers. Gobi was also one of the three suspects that the Sri Lankan armed forces shot dead in April 2014 when they “attempted to escape”, according to the Sri Lanka Army.

Her daughter Vibhoosika wrote to the new president Maithripala Sirisena in February, requesting him to release her mother.

It was earlier reported that Jeyakumari might be released coinciding with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit.