Sri Lanka: former public employees assaulted by the police while staging a peaceful protest
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Feb 24, 2020
- Event Description
Police assaulted protesters, who were former employees of National Housing Authority, and who had blocked the Galle Road near to Presidential Secretariat. As a result of the incident, three female protesters were hospitalized.
- Impact of Event
- 4
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Woman
- Violation
- Use of Excessive Force
- Violence (physical)
- Wounds and Injuries
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Labour rights
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Labour rights defender
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 6.934038384998309
Longitude: 79.85427843447165
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 24 February 2020, an undefined number of former employees of National Housing Authority was assaulted by the police during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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