Sri Lanka: Forgotten prisoners: Sri Lanka uses anti-terrorism laws to detain thousands
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Index Number: ASA 37/001/2011Date 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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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Thousands in detention - Amnesty
The human rights group Amnesty International has called on the President of Sri Lanka to release those it describes as “forgotten prisoners”
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| Families still waiting the detainees to be charged or released |
people it says have been detained without trial for years and who it says are numbered in the thousands, 1,900 of them officially confirmed.
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It says sweeping emergency and anti-terror laws are still used to arrest people and should be scrapped. In a reaction a government MP has said that efforts are still afoot to revive the Tamil Tiger militants.
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