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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Sri Lanka: Forgotten prisoners: Sri Lanka uses anti-terrorism laws to detain thousands

Sri Lanka: Forgotten prisoners: Sri Lanka uses anti-terrorism laws to detain thousands

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Index Number: ASA 37/001/2011 Date Published: 8 March 2011 Categories: Sri Lanka

Thousands of people are languishing in detention without charge or trial under Sri Lanka’s repressive anti-terrorism laws. Sometimes held in secret prisons, they are vulnerable to a whole range of abuses, including torture or being killed in custody. Sri Lanka has been under a state of emergency almost continually since 1971. Successive governments have used national security as an excuse to introduce a range of broad and often confusing emergency regulations.

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Tamil: Sinhala:http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/001/2011/en

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