Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Act, No. 12 of 2022

Parliament of Sri Lanka · lawnet.gov.lk (March 2022)

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Limited amendment passed under sustained EU GSP+ and UNHRC pressure. Marginally adjusted magistrate review of detention and bail eligibility. Did not alter pre-charge detention powers, the admissibility of police-extracted confessions, the broad definition of unlawful activity, or assembly/expression restrictions. OHCHR successor reports (2022, 2023, 2024), ICJ, Amnesty, and HRW all assessed the amendment as failing to bring the PTA into compliance with international standards. The case file uses the 2022 amendment as the empirical anchor for the claim that international conditionality has produced incremental reform without structural change.

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