Monday July 12, 2021 8:59 am
Monday July 12, 2021 8:59 am
ECONOMYNEXT – Authorities should not use quarantine rules to suppress peaceful protest, violating constitutional rights of the people, especially when they were bailed out by courts, and first contacts were quarantine at home elsewhere, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka has said.
Sri Lanka Director General of Health has permitted the operation of spas, supermarkets and restaurants and have not listed public protests and outdoor meetings as prohibited activities but only mass gatherings of people.
“In the past few days Sri Lanka Police has carried out a number of arrests of persons engaged in peaceful protests on different issues and produced them before courts of law,” the BASL said in a letter the Director General of Health.