Amnesty International — Sri Lanka and the Prevention of Terrorism Act

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Standing Amnesty file on the PTA 1979 and PTA Amendment 2022. Anchor for the case file's PTA articles alongside ICJ, HRW, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture 2017 mission, and the UN Committee Against Torture 2017 Concluding Observations.

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