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QUIRKY WORLD ... Tourist deported over Buddha tattoo

SRI LANKA: A British tourist is to be deported from Sri Lanka because of a tattoo of Buddha on her arm.

QUIRKY WORLD ... Tourist deported over Buddha tattoo

Wed, 23 Apr, 2014 - 01:00

Sri Lankan police said Naomi Michelle Coleman, 37, was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport in the capital, Colombo, after she arrived from India.

A police spokesman said she was arrested for “hurting others’ religious feelings” after the tattoo of a Buddha seated on a lotus flower was spotted on her right arm.

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