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Sri Lanka: Further information: Student protestors released
13 February 2013

Secretary of the Jaffna University Students' Union, P. Tharshananth and President of the Arts Faculty Student Union, K. Jenemajeyamenan, were released on 13 February ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/005/2013

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12 February 2013

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Document       ASA 37/004/2013

Sri Lanka: Impunity persists for crimes under international law as ...
12 February 2013

In this statement Amnesty International expresses its concern that the government's intolerance of dissent has led to violations of the right to freedom of expression ...

Document       ASA 37/004/2013

Sri Lanka: Impunity persists for crimes under international law as ...
12 February 2013

Document       ASA 37/004/2013

Sri Lanka: Further information: Two students released from ...
29 January 2013

On 22 January, students Sanmugam Solaman and V. Bhavananadan were released from detention in a “Rehabilitation” centre in Welikanda by the Terrorist Investigation ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/002/2013

Beheading of domestic worker shows Saudi Arabia at odds with ...
9 January 2013

A Sri Lankan domestic worker has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed while still a child.

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Amnesty International | Sri Lankan woman at risk of execution in ...
8 January 2013

A young Sri Lankan woman is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed whilst under the age of 18, prompting Amnesty ...

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Sri Lanka: Further information: Crackdown on students spreads ...
11 December 2012

One student is believed to have been released on bail, but many more have been arrested. Several are held incommunicado, putting them at much greater risk of torture ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/015/2012

Sri Lanka: Students at risk of torture following march
4 December 2012

Four students were arrested on 1 December in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the police. They are being held in Vavuniya ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/014/2012

Amnesty International | Sri Lanka: Violence at Welikada prison
9 November 2012

Clashes between prisoners and guards broke out at Colombo's Welikada prison today after members of Sri Lanka's Special Task Force (STF), an elite commando unit, ...

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