<span style="color: #222222;">Sri Lanka has termed the sentence against one of its defence official by a British court as a politically motivated action. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Foreign ministry said in a statement that Sri Lanka maintains that Brigadier Fernando who was attached to the Sri Lanka High Commission in London is entitled to diplomatic immunity as per Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Brigadier who motioned death threats to Tamil protestors in London last year was found guilty of violating the Public Order Act, after a protracted legal battle. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Sri Lanka said demonstrators who had staged the protest in front of the Sri Lanka High commission as well as Westminster Magistrates' court during the hearings had used flags of the LTTE which is a banned organisation in the UK. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It said, the failure to uphold Brigadier Fernando's diplomatic immunities, the timing of the delivering of the judgement on the eve of the UK elections and the alleged leaking of privileged information by the defence to the public domain, makes abundantly clear that this is a politically motivated action. The court has imposed a lower notional financial penalty, but did not consider it appropriate to issue a warrant. </span><br />''