International Commission of Jurists — PTA and Impunity
The standing International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) record on the Prevention of Terrorism Act and the structural pattern of impunity in Sri Lanka — cited alongside Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and OHCHR.
The ICJ's Sri Lanka work is the international legal-profession's analysis: the PTA's text, its application, its incompatibility with international human-rights standards, and the pattern of impunity that has surrounded both the 2002–09 conflict and its aftermath. /case routes to ICJ for that analysis.
§1What it covers
ICJ output spans the 1979 PTA's text and amendments, the 2022 amendments (cosmetic per civil-society reading), the wider impunity architecture (Sixth Amendment, post-conflict commissions of inquiry), and successive country-specific submissions to OHCHR.