Nathasha Edirisooriya, Ramzy Razeek, Shakthika Sathkumara and the ICCPR Act

Groundviews · Groundviews, 14 November 2023

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Pattern of Sri Lanka's ICCPR Act No. 56/2007 §3(1) being used to arrest comedian Nathasha Edirisooriya (May 2023), short-story writer Shakthika Sathkumara (April 2019), activist Ramzy Razeek for creative or political expression. Edirisooriya and Sathkumara are Sinhalese — the cross-ethnic pattern establishes a rights statute weaponised as a censorship tool. Tamil-specific targeting under §3(1) is not established on the record; against Tamils the censorship instrument has been the PTA.

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