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Activists concerned about counter-terror laws while impunity for past crimes persists
- Published at
- 13.03.2019
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law

Misuse of ICCPR Act and judicial system to stifle freedom of expression in Sri Lanka
- Published at
- 05.07.2019
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- minority groups
- censorship
- journalist detained
Torture, abduction and ethnic violence continue in Sri Lanka
- Published at
- 25.07.2016
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- positive CS development
- access to info. law

Killing of jaffna students prompts unrest in northern Sri Lanka
- Published at
- 26.10.2016
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- religious groups
- minority groups
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest

Authorities continue to crack down on protests and detain online critics in Sri Lanka, despite UN human rights review
- Published at
- 17.02.2023
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- restrictive law
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- criminal defamation

Government backs down on restrictive NGO law amendments
- Published at
- 10.04.2018
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- women
- positive CS development
- restrictive law
- internet restriction

Activists threatened and attacked while families of the disappeared protest hearings
- Published at
- 07.08.2018
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD threatened
- women
- attack on HRD
- religious groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment

Journalists and activists targeted as many fear regression of rights following Sri Lankan elections
- Published at
- 15.12.2019
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- protest

Pardon for war criminal creates chilling effect in Sri Lanka as threats to activists increase
- Published at
- 13.04.2020
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- restrictive law
- intimidation

Ahead of Sri Lanka elections, lawyers, journalists and activists arrested, threatened and harassed
- Published at
- 17.07.2020
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- protest disruption
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- harassment
- surveillance
- journalist detained
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained

Civic freedom violations persist in Sri Lanka as the President expands his powers
- Published at
- 31.10.2020
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- attack on journalist