Sri Lanka: student leaders prevented to keep protesting against long-term university closure by court order
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Feb 27, 2020
- Event Description
On 27th of February university student activists started a protest in front of the Ministry of Higher Education building in Ward place, Colombo. The students launched a continuous protest against the long-time closure of the University of Ruhuna. Colombo court had issued a court order to remove the protest hut made by the students, and to prevent students from protesting either on the road or on the pavement of the road. They were also prevented them from entering the government office premises. This literally meant according to the order they could no longer continue the protest. The students were told that they will be arrested and charged for contempt of court unless they obeyed. The order was issued against Inter University Student Federation (IUSF) convener Rathkarawwe Jinarathana Thero, Convener of General Students Association of Ruhuna University Weranga Pushpika, Convener of General Students Association of Rajarata University Wasantha Mudalige, Co-conveners of General Students Association of Peradeniya University Mangala Maddumage, and Gihan Weerasekara and other protesters who participated in the protest with them.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of movement
- Offline
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Student
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 6.89411251107929
Longitude: 80.02110925552515
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 27 February 2020, six student leaders were prevented to protesting against long-term university closure by a court order in Colombo, Sri Lanka.