COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court on Friday ordered the detention and questioning of a woman who has been searching for a 15-year-old son who is among the country’s war missing, a rights activist said. Her 13-year-old daughter was referred to child care officials.

Human rights activists say the arrest of Balendran Jeyakumari and her daughter Vithushaini on Thursday is part of the government’s continuing efforts to intimidate families of the country’s civil war-missing into silence.