Sri Lanka: two student leaders arrested again
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Jul 23, 2023
- Event Description
The former convenor of the Inter-University Student's Federation Wasantha Mudalige and another were arrested in Borella on Thursday (27) evening by Sri Lanka Police.
Wasantha Mudalige was arrested by the Cinnamon Gardens Police and was detained at the Cinnamon Gardens Police Station.
He was arrested as per a warrant issued for his arrest for failing to appear in court for a case filed over being a member of an unlawful assembly opposite the University Grants Commission on the 27th of February 2020, and for causing inconveniences.
The other person who was arrested was India Vidana Pathirana, a member of the IUSF.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- Student
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 6.936715244605089
Longitude: 79.86274316885763
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 27 July 2023, Wasantha Mudalige and India Vidana Pathirana, members of the Inter-University Student's Federation, were arrested by the police in relation to a gathering that they organised in 2020 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.