Sri Lanka's Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said on Sunday that the government would follow the Supreme Court's observations on the proposed new Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), amid objection from the Opposition and the civil society groups.
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Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe on Thursday announced that the presentation of the new anti-terrorism Bill that would replace a draconian counter-terrorism law in parliament would be delayed further, a day after a powerful body of lawyers said it would not hesitate to challenge
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Sri Lanka faced international calls to repeal the PTA which was enacted in 1979 as a temporary measure to counter the rising Tamil separatist militancy