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President Should be Held Accountable For Ignoring Warnings on Cyclone Ditwah – Champika Ranawaka
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PSTA: In Certain Cases, It Has More Authority Than the PTA
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28/12/2025
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The Protection of the State from Terrorism Act (PSTA): A Framework to Protect the State, Not the People – Lionel Bopage
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21/12/2025
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Sri Lanka Working Journalists’ Association Strongly Opposes Draft PSTA
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21/12/2025
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Sri Lanka: The Prevention Of State From Terrorism Act (PTSA) In Plain Language and Act In Full
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20/12/2025
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Sri Lanka: Protection of the State from Terrorism Act, No. of 2026: Observations from an information integrity perspective
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17/12/2025
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Consultation conundrum: How ‘people friendly’ is the Government?
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18/09/2025
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Sri Lanka: 49 Arrested Under PTA in First Five Months of AKD Administration
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15/08/2025
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Sri Lanka:Youth jailed for 9 months for protesting Israel
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09/07/2025
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No Terror Laws – Sri Lanka civil society group calls on the NPP government
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29/05/2025
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Memory of war, Sivalingam Aruran : Arrested at 29 for conspiring to kill Gota & released at 43
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18/05/2025
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Sri Lanka tells EU its committed to repeal Prevention of Terrorism Act to ensure GSP+
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07/05/2025
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TPA urges EU to condition GSP+ on tangible democratic, human rights reforms in Sri Lanka
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01/05/2025
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Muslim Orgs call for justice for Easter attacks & express concens of prolong detentions
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21/04/2025
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Urgent Reforms Required to Safeguard Economy and to Promote Reconciliation
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12/04/2025
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Arrest of Mohamad Rusdi: Amnesty Int. is disappointed that regular use of PTA in Sri Lanka
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06/04/2025
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Concerns raised over continued use of PTA by NPP government
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06/04/2025
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NPP’s volte-face from its own pledge on PTA
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01/04/2025
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Committee to amend the Anti-Terrorism Bill
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25/02/2025
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‘Journalists who challenge authority continue to face potentially deadly consequences’- Sunanda Deshapriya
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23/01/2025
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Abolishing PTA: is NPP govt facing strong resistance from security officials?
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24/12/2024
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Govt. says will not repeal PTA but prevent misuse
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29/10/2024
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Sri Lanka: False Terrorism Cases Enable Repression – HRW
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18/07/2024
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Sri Lanka: Poet Ahnaf Jazeem detained for 18 months under draconian PTA acquitted
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12/12/2023
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Sri Lanka: Tamils Detained for Commemorating War Dead
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08/12/2023
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Sri Lanka: SC vetoes anti-terrorism bill; ‘‘no definition for the term violent extremist religious ideology’’
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19/11/2023
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Sri Lanka: SC holds Deradicalization Regulations are not legally valid
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14/11/2023
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Sri Lanka: ‘SL VLOG’ owner Bruno Divakara remanded
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01/06/2023
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Understanding Sri Lanka’s Controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill 2023: Why Calls to Repeal the 1979 PTA Persist
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17/05/2023
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In a joint letter UN Special Rapporteurs take proposed Sri Lanka’s Anti-Terrorism Act to the task!
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11/05/2023
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North East Women’s Collective protests against the Anti Terrorism Act
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20/04/2023
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