REPORT:WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE PTA DETAINEES IN SRI LANKA NOW?
13/06/2016
Centre for Human Rights and Research (CHR) Sri Lanka has unveiled its comprehensive report on the Prevention of Terrorism act (PTA) ‘What is happening with the detainees now? The forgotten political prisoners under the Yahapalanaya.
In the report CHR puts the PTA in context of Sri Lankan history, analyzes the draconian anature of the law, provides case studies of how PTA has affected those detained under it and their families and details how the ‘good governance’ administration has tackled the PTA issue. Civil Sociaty Organizations (CSOs) who played a main role in ensuring the victory of this government has been insisting for decades to repeal the law. While the current administration has remarked that it will amend the PTA according to international norms, it has not taken proactive steps to ameliorate those affected by the PTA.
