International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Act, No. 56 of 2007 — §3 (incitement)

Sri Lanka's domestic-incorporation statute for the ICCPR. §3 criminalises advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence — directly implementing ICCPR Art 20(2). OHCHR, UN HRC, USCIRF and domestic civil society (CPA, Verité, Hashtag Generation) have documented the asymmetric application: ICCPR Act prosecutions are overwhelmingly directed against Muslims, Christians and Tamils (incl. the 2019 Ramzy Razik case, the 2020 Shakthika Sathkumara case, the 2023 Natasha Edirisooriya case), while documented majoritarian incitement events (Aluthgama 2014, Digana 2018, post-Easter 2019, forced cremation 2020–22) have rarely produced ICCPR Act charges against named instigators. Anchor citation for the enforcement-gap thesis.