AI opposes draconian new laws to fight organised crime

A new Bill before Sri Lanka’s Parliament that grants the authorities sweeping arbitrary powers to tackle ‘organised crime’ and deny suspects’ human rights should be immediately withdrawn, Amnesty International said. The Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill, tabled in Sri Lanka’s Parliament on 6 October, contains provisions that would make confessions extracted under duress admissible in […]

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