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Reports
The
State of Civil and Political Rights in Sri Lanka
30 December 2003
The
Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) provides broad and loose definition
of "terrorist acts" to include ordinary cases of murder,
robbery, theft, etc. Terrorist acts are so broadly defined that
any person who "without lawful authority erases, mutilates,
defaces or otherwise interferes with any words, inscriptions, or
lettering appearing on any board or other fixture on, upon or adjacent
to, any highway, street, road or any other public place" can
be arrested as a terrorist under Section 2(i) of the PTA. Therefore,
even the hooligans or naughty adolescents could effectively be arrested
as terrorists for "defacing" with any words, inscriptions,
or lettering appearing on any board or other fixture on, upon or
adjacent to, any highway, street, road or any other public place".
Read more about the PTA of Sri Lanka from the report...... More
The
Status of Children in India
9 October 2003
The
highest numbers of detainees are not from Jammu and Kashmir, the
central focus of India's war against terror. The majority of the
detainees under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002 are
from Jharkhand, the heartland of India's indigenous peoples, the
Adivasis. The detainees include children as young as 12 and elderly
as old as 81 years. Read more about the draonian features of the
POTA and its misuse....... More
Briefing Papers
4th
EU-India Summit: Human rights must form part of dialogue, 29.11.2003
ACHR Review
Review/01/2004: Interpreters
of the Draconian: An analysis of the
POTA judgement and POTA Amendment Bill 2003
Campaigns
07/10/2003 Jharkhand:
Detention of 14-year-old Ms Mayanti Raj Kumari under POTA
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