British woman to be deported from Sri Lanka because of her tattoo.

A British woman, Naomi Michelle Coleman, 37, has been arrested at the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka after she arrived from India, because she has a tattoo of a Buddha seated on a lotus flower on her right arm, which was considered as ‘hurting others religious feelings'.

Buddhism is the religion of the country's majority ethnic tribe and Buddhist tattoos are seen as culturally insensitive.

After her arrest,she appeared before a magistrate who ordered her deportation to Britain. She is currently being held at an immigration detention centre until deportation and it is said that she would be removed ‘very soon - it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow’.

This is not the first time body art depicting Buddha has gotten foreigners into trouble in Sri Lanka.