The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has called on Sri Lanka’s President, Maithripala Sirisena, to retract his recent pronouncement that executions would resume in the country notwithstanding a moratorium on capital punishment that has lasted 43 years. The last execution was carried out in Sri Lanka in 1976. “Resuming executions would be an egregious violation […]
Capital punishment
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We strongly and unequivocally oppose capital punishment, EU tells Sirisena
The Delegation of the European Union (EU) issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Missions, the High Commissioner of Canada, and the Ambassador of Norway resident in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Delegation of the European Union, the missions of the EU Member States in Sri Lanka as well as the diplomatic […]
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The Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka : OHCHR report on the civil and political rights
Image: the military presence in the North and East regions remained heavy and a culture of surveillance and intimidation and harassment in certain instances persisted, says the report. B. Civil and political rights 1. Right to life, liberty and security of person 16. The Special Rapporteur on torture recommended that capital punishment be abolished or, as […]
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Five students including 4 girls were tortured by a school principal in Sri Lanka.
(AHRC) Five senior students of the Deniyaya Central College in Matara District, were tortured by the Principal of the school in his office on 17 October 2017. On 16 October, students started getting out of the school bus. At a stop near the school, one unknown student in the bus murmured the word ‘Pina’. Then […]
