Sri Lanka: student protest met with tear gas

Event
Country
  • Sri Lanka
Initial Date
Sep 6, 2023
Event Description

Police have fired tear gas in attempts to disperse a protest staged by the Students’ Union of the Peradeniya University.

Accordingly, tear gas was used against the students who were staging a protest march in the Peradeniya area, along the Colombo-Kandy main road.

The protest was held over several key demands, including the riddance of alleged government conspiracies to ‘abolish the University Grants Commission (UGC)’ and ‘sell medical degrees’, which would destroy the country’s free education system, they claimed.

Impact of Event
1
Gender of HRD
  • Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
Violation
  • Violence (physical)
Rights Concerned
  • Freedom of assembly
  • Freedom of expression
    • Offline
  • Right to healthy and safe environment
  • Right to Protest
HRD
  • Student
Perpetrator-State
  • Police
Source

Ada Derana

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: 7.264287943722314

Longitude: 80.592729527318

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 6 September 2023, Peradeniya University students faced tear gas as police dispersed their protest on various education system issues in Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.