Sri Lanka: Tamil community leaders prevented from staging commemorating events
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Sri Lanka: women-led protest dispersed with water cannons
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Sri Lanka: media workers prevented from reporting on land seizure
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Sri Lanka: six Tamil students arrested for staging a protest
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Sri Lanka: court bars community protest
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Sri Lanka: students met with police violence
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Sri Lanka: 10 protesters arrested for demanding former health minister's arrest
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy HRD arrested for publishing phone call recording
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Sri Lanka: two family members of the disappeared arrested for protesting
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Sri Lanka: Tamil rights defender threatened with death
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Sri Lanka: media workers face police intimidation
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Sri Lanka: five arrested for peaceful protest
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Sri Lanka: 21 students arrested, met with violence
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Sri Lanka: students blocked from staging protest
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Sri Lanka: ten arrested for demanding action on former minister
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Sri Lanka: protesting medical students fired with tear gas and water cannons
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Sri Lanka: another student protest met with tear gas
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Sri Lanka: Tamil cattle farmers met with brutal police force
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Sri Lanka: family members of the disappeared barred from protesting
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Sri Lanka: lawyers intimidated for striking in support of resigned judge
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Sri Lanka: Tamil cattle farmers compelled to cease protesting due to court injunction
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Sri Lanka: four media workers reported by a minister over new report
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Sri Lanka: student protest met with tear gas
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Sri Lanka: Tamil HRD interrogated for opposing land-grabbing
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Sri Lanka: Tamil rights defender receives intimidating phone call
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Sri Lanka: labour rights defenders prevented from staging a protest
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Sri Lanka: HRDs arrested for demanding rights for Tamil people
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Sri Lanka: WHRD vilified by anonymous posters
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Sri Lanka: another farmer leader targeted
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Sri Lanka: farmer leader assaulted
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Sri Lanka: media worker hit by water cannon
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Sri Lanka: 22 students arrested after ban on gathering and violent dispersal
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Sri Lanka: two student leaders arrested again
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Sri Lanka: WHRD summoned by the police
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender arrested upon returning to the country
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Sri Lanka: social media activist questioned by police
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Sri Lanka: Tamil HRDs detained for commemorating civil war deaths
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Sri Lanka: ethnic Tamil commemorating 1984 massacre disrupted by police
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Sri Lanka: civil servant protest met with teargas, water cannons
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Sri Lanka: two media workers questioned, harassed following protest coverage
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Sri Lanka: defenders blocked from entering Colombo
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Sri Lanka: Tamil media workers held captive by mob for 5 hours
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender arrested again
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Sri Lanka: HRDs harassed and threatened from joining interfaith Iftar
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Sri Lanka: three pro-democracy defenders arrested for protesting
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Sri Lanka: media worker attacked, another threatened
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Sri Lanka: protest violently dispersed, at least 57 arrested
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Sri Lanka: unionist, lawyer and 14 others arrested for protesting
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender arrested over social media post
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Sri Lanka: prominent HRD arrested for protesting
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Sri Lanka: media worker arrested and beaten by the police
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Sri Lanka: trade unionists prevented from protesting upon court order
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Sri Lanka: student protest confronted with water cannons
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Sri Lanka: commemoration of anti-Tamil pogrom obstructed
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Sri Lanka: two social media activists summoned over online remarks
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Sri Lanka: stand-up comedian arrested for allegedly making derogatory remarks on religion
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Sri Lanka: social media activist arrested
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Sri Lanka: human rights lawyer received threatening phone calls
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Sri Lanka: eight university students arrested after protesting
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender beaten, arrested
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Sri Lanka: labour rights defenders sent on compulsory leave
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Sri Lanka: media worker summoned for interrogation
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Sri Lanka: six students arrested in violent repression of protest
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Sri Lanka: police violence leads to 15 injured, one death
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Sri Lanka: more episodes of violence, arrest against demonstrators
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Sri Lanka: water cannons to disperse demonstrators
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Sri Lanka: demonstrators met with police violence
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Sri Lanka: two students arrested
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Sri Lanka: two labour rights defenders arrested
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Sri Lanka: social media activist arrested
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Sri Lanka: peaceful protesters met with violence, arrest
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Sri Lanka: media worker family interrogated
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Sri Lanka: student leaders pretrial detention extended, subsequent protest disbanded violently (Update)
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Sri Lanka: media worker summoned over Facebook post
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Sri Lanka: another media worker interrogated by the police
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Sri Lanka: HRD faces continued harassment (Update)
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Sri Lanka: media worker house visited
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Sri Lanka: media workers faces continuous harassment
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Sri Lanka: student arrested on the way back from pro-democracy demonstration
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Sri Lanka: students fired teargas at during a protest
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy protest met with live bullets, one dead
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy actress arrested
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Sri Lanka: arrested defenders face further judicial harassment (Update)
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Sri Lanka: peaceful protest dispersed violently, four defenders arrested
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Sri Lanka: social media activist arrested
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender detention prolonged (Update)
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender arrested while attempting to leave the country, remanded in prison
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Sri Lanka: labour unionist arrested (Update)
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defenders and three media workers assaulted for covering ongoing unrest, their media outlet visited
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy student arrested
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Sri Lanka: six pro-democracy defenders had their passports cancelled
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Sri Lanka: demonstrators including media workers, lawyers, disbanded with violence, 9 arrested
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defenders, media workers injured
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Sri Lanka: lawyer, CSO members targeted by national human rights commission
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Sri Lanka: media worker summoned by the police
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Sri Lanka: media worker intimidated
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Sri Lanka: lawyer joining anti-government summoned by police
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Sri Lanka: environmental monk arrested
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy attacked with water cannon, teargas
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Sri Lanka: at least 12 pro-democracy defenders arrested
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defenders attacked by government supporters amid police inaction
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Sri Lanka: at least 7 media workers, social media activist beaten, arrested
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Sri Lanka: students met with teargas in peaceful protest
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Sri Lanka: community-based defender arrested for a statement
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Sri Lanka: lawyer, former NHRC commissioner harassed
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Sri Lanka: media worker beaten for covering civil was commemoration
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Sri Lanka: teacher unions members arrested en masse
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Sri Lanka: community-based defender harassed on by anti-terrorism unit
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Sri Lanka: journalist critical of the government detained under anti-terror act, his house raided
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Sri Lanka: student leaders receive death threats for joining protest
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Sri Lanka: 2 student leaders abducted, arrested, 2 more intimidated, visited by the police
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Sri Lanka: over 40 teachers arrested for nationwide protest
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Sri Lanka: media worker again target of police harassment
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Sri Lanka: media worker assaulted, held by the police
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Sri Lanka: media worker intimidated while covering a protest
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Sri Lanka: media worker harassed by forest officials for covering a land dispute
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Sri Lanka: media worker arrested, coerced to confess and his lawyer threatened (Update)
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Sri Lanka: media worker abducted, tortured
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Sri Lanka: community-based defenders prevented from protesting
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Sri Lanka: environmental defender asked compensation for reporting adverse impact of large-scale hotel
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Sri Lanka: two media worker threatened with death, assaulted for covering illegal logging
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Sri Lanka: media worker assaulted for covering illegal sand mining
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Sri Lanka: lawyer and academic compelled to resign for representing Tamil youth against military
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Sri Lanka: human rights lawyer temporarily detained for inquiring into the arrest of protesters
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Sri Lanka: police raids home of a prominent journalist, seizes her laptop
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Sri Lanka: media worker assaulted, threatened after covering Muslim event to demonstrate participants respect of social distancing
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Sri Lanka: media outlet urges investigation against NGO
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Sri Lanka: students commemorating genocide are intimidated by the police
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Sri Lanka: prominent human rights lawyer arbitrarily arrested, his house raided under baseless terrorism link
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Sri Lanka: blogger arrested over a misunderstood Facebook post after receiving online death threats
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Sri Lanka: two WHRDs targeted by smear campaign ahead of elections
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Sri Lanka: newspaper director, his wife and the editor summoned by the police over coverage of the UN HRC session
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Sri Lanka: student leaders prevented to keep protesting against long-term university closure by court order
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Sri Lanka: WHRDs threatened by the police with arrest to stop their peaceful protest
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Sri Lanka: former public employees assaulted by the police while staging a peaceful protest
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Sri Lanka: indigenous leader physically attacked after criticising sand mining project
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Sri Lanka: media worker assaulted by unknown assailants
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Sri Lanka: WHRD and her daughter hospitalised after being attacked by unknown men
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Sri Lanka: human rights lawyer and academic barred from private legal practice
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Sri Lanka: Former Tamil political activist denied entry to Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka: WHRDs monitored while staging a rally during the International Human Rights Day
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Sri Lanka: villagers threatened by the police for protesting against illegal sand extraction
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Sri Lanka: police uses water cannons and tear gas against protesters
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Sri Lanka: Journalist attacked while reporting a protest
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Sri Lanka: journalist interrogated by Terrorism Investigation Division after reporting the arrest of a doctor
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Sri Lanka: journalist threatened by the Government after reporting irregularities on the House Scheme implementation
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Sri Lanka: journalist and his wife threatened and brutally beaten for investigative reporting, their house raided
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Sri Lanka: Freelance journalist attacked only 48 hours before presidential election
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Sri Lanka: wife campaigning for disappeared husband is abducted, subjected to threats and abuse
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Sri Lanka: Tamil man arrested for alledgedly helping OHCHR war crime probe
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Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist escapes attempted murder
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Sri Lanka: human rights defenders harassed by ruling party supporters during protest
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Sri Lanka: human rights lawyers receive death threats
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Sri Lanka: journalists and their families receive death threats
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Sri Lanka: HRD violently assaulted
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Sri Lanka: NGOs targeted by government
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Sri Lanka: journalists arbitrarily detained
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Sri Lanka: legislation seeks to limit NGO activities
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Sri Lanka: governmental directive targets NGOs
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Sri Lanka: overseas Tamil organisations labeled 'financiers of terrorism'
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Sri Lanka: student activists arrested, freed on bail
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Sri Lanka: Human Rights Defenders Ruki Fernando and Father Praveen detained
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Sri Lanka: disappearances activist released after 362 days in detention without charge
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Sri Lanka: monk critical of violence assaulted
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Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist attacked
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Sri Lanka: student activists beaten and detained
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Sri Lanka: 600 activists barred from attending demonstration
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Sri Lanka: lawyer and activist attacked
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Sri Lanka: rights group intimidated
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Sri Lanka: journalists intimidated
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Sri Lanka: Threats against Nimalka Fernando___s life and other human rights defenders through state media
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Sri Lanka: attempted abduction of a student leader
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Sri Lanka: Threat to remove Lakshan from legal profession
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Sri Lanka: Father Elil Rajan summoned for the third time in one week over commemorative event for civil war victims
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Sri Lanka: Human Rights Organizations call on Sri Lanka to ensure safety of two HRDs: Nimalka Fernando and Sunanda Deshapriva
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Sri Lanka: priest HRD is facing police harassment for supporting torture victims
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Sri Lanka: Journalist assaulted by the police
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Sri Lanka: Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has been violating the rights of political prisoners for the past 30 years
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Sri Lanka: Police stops signature campaign in Trincomalee and Jaffna for international accountability mechanism to examine mass atrocities during the armed conflict
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Sri Lanka: Women Development Society leader threatened by unknown group in Mannaar
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Sri Lanka: Academics assaulted by pro-Rajapaksa groups
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Sri Lanka: Minority rights defender threatened during 25th Session of the Human Rights Council
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Sri Lanka: 24 CSOs defamed by state-controlled TV station for submitting information to UN
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Sri Lanka: HRDs prevented from cooperating with UN and intimidated in aftermath of visit UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Sri Lanka: 3 journalist attacked by alleged plainclothes local police
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Sri Lanka: HRDs receive death threats in run-up to presidential elections
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Sri Lanka: severed dog's heads delivered to the homes of two HRDs
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Sri Lanka: Two HRD arersted on charges of conspiring against the Government
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Sri Lanka: Judicial Service Commission Secretary assaulted
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Sri Lanka: Members of human rights organisation Right to Life and Families of the Disappeared (FOD) judicially harrased
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Sri Lanka: Journalist disappeared
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Sri Lanka: CPA director target of slanderous posters
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Sri Lanka: 2 HRDs disappeared before press conference on Human Rights Day
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Sri Lanka: HRD target of smear campaign in media after engaging with UN Human Rights Council
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Sri Lanka: HRD harrased and intimidated by police
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Sri Lanka: 42 activists detained and prevented from participating in peaceful protest on human rights day
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Sri Lanka: HRDs subjected to smear campaign as reprisal for UN advocacy
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Sri Lanka: HRD victim of reprisals following participation in the UN Human Rights Council
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Sri Lanka: Opposition newspaper editor badly beaten and left for dead
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Sri Lanka : Missing NGO worker___s body found in partly built house
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Sri Lanka : Journalist arrested and severely tortured by police
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Sri Lanka: Lanka-E-news editor arrested and detained
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Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist arrested, tortured and imprisoned
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Sri Lanka: Printing workers arrested
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Sri Lanka: Human rights worker abducted and found dead
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