Sri Lanka: another student protest met with tear gas
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Oct 18, 2023
- Event Description
The police fired tear gas to disperse a group of university students protesting along the Kandy-Peradeniya road this evening (Oct. 18).
The demonstration was organized by the students’ union of Peradeniya University against the private higher education institutes, the Online Safety Bill, the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Anti-Terrorism Bill and the delaying of Mahapola scholarship payments.
The protesting university students also demanded the authorities to increase the Mahapola scholarship payments.
The protest march commenced at around 2:00 p.m. today.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- 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
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 7.264015007495401
Longitude: 80.59299010724926
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 18 October 2023, a protest held by the students’ union of Peradeniya University, was dispersed as police fired tear gas at the students in Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.