Sri Lanka: UN human rights experts dismayed by forced cremations of Muslims and others (joint statement of UN Special Procedures)

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Joint statement by five UN Special Rapporteurs (FoRB, minority issues, health, freedom of expression, cultural rights) condemning Sri Lanka's mandatory cremation policy applied to Muslim and Christian COVID-19 deaths from March 2020 to February 2021 — in direct violation of Islamic and some Christian burial rites and with no WHO public-health basis. Policy reversed only after sustained UN and OIC pressure. Anchor citation for the post-Easter 2019 escalation of state-driven anti-Muslim measures and for the One Country One Law Task Force trajectory.

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https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/01/sri-lanka-un-human-rights-experts-dismayed-forced-cremations-covid-19-dead

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