Day: July 7, 2022
Minimum powers of riot control and police | SDIG Priyantha Jayakody
Expressing concern over the statement issued by the HRC
The Sri Lanka Collective Against Torture (SLCAT) is gravely concerned about the statement issued by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) dated 30 June 2022 titled ‘HRCSL condemns the false media broadcast made by the President of the Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners’. The Commission, at the conclusion of its inquiry into the allegation made by Mr. Senaka Perera, President of the Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners, that imprisoned persons were used on 9 May 2022 to attack peaceful protestors, makes many assertions and allegations that…
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