In a Legal Black Hole: Sri Lanka's Failure to Reform the Prevention of Terrorism Act

Human Rights Watch · HRW, 7 February 2022

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HRW: 'Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has been used for over 40 years to enable prolonged arbitrary detention, to extract false confessions through torture, and to target minority communities and civil society groups… the proposed amendments leave the most often abused provisions of the law intact.' Primary Tier B anchor for the structural-PTA-misuse claim framing the Sangeethsan §3(g) arrest in 2026.

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