Sri Lanka: another student protest meets police tear gas and water cannon
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Feb 17, 2024
- Event Description
The Police today (17) utilised water cannons and tear gas to disperse a protest organised by the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) near the University of Sri Jayawardenapura.
The demonstration aimed at highlighting and seeking solutions to the challenges confronting the state university system.
As the protest march approached Wijerama from the university’s front, law enforcement deployed tear gas and water cannons on five separate occasions.
The confrontations resulted in heated situations between the police and the participating students.
- 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
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 6.887836342055498
Longitude: 79.91880844428952
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 17 February 2024, a group of students and members of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) from Sri Jayewardenepura University staging a peaceful demonstration on their university issues were responded with water cannons fired by the police in Colombo, Sri Lanka.