Sri Lanka Collective Against Torture held a seminar in Colombo on September 25 to discuss the Anti-Terror Bill that the government has published on the gazette. This bill was first introduced in March but later it was withdrawn due to protests from the civil society. Opening the dialogue, Dulan Dasanayake, AAL, pointed out that the debate has two sides, those who want to completely abolish the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and those who want to introduce a new anti-terror law in line with the international standards. “I was…
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