Sri Lanka confronted renewed criticism on Wednesday over a new “de-radicalisation” law which rights teams see as one other weapon concentrating on dissidents and minorities within the fractured nation.
New York-based Human Rights Watch mentioned new guidelines expanded the “draconian and abusive” Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) — which a earlier authorities promised to scrap however by no means did.
On Friday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa introduced new guidelines below the PTA permitting the detention of anybody suspected of inflicting “acts of violence or religious, racial or communal disharmony”.
HRW mentioned Colombo ought to instantly withdraw the foundations, which the federal government mentioned was aimed on the “de-radicalisation” of non secular extremists.
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