COLOMBO: Sri Lanka‘s newly-elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reaffirmed his dedication to uphold the rights of peaceable and non-violent meeting, saying the protest website was left untouched in Friday midnight operation to take away protesters from the Presidential Secretariat, his workplace stated on Sunday. Sri Lanka’s safety forces forcibly evicted anti-government protesters camped exterior the presidential workplace in Colombo in a pre-dawn raid on Friday on the order of Wickremesinghe.
Protesters had been tenting exterior the presidential workplace for months, demanding the resignation of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the nation on July 13, and Wickremesinghe, a key Rajapaksa ally.
Throughout a gathering with the diplomatic personnel in Colombo on Friday, President Wickremesinghe affirmed that the Authorities will uphold each Article 21 of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 14 (1) (b) of the Structure of Sri Lanka, which governs the correct to peaceable meeting, stated an announcement issued by the President’s workplace.
The assertion got here as US Ambassador Julie Chung had taken the Lankan authorities to job for the assault on the unarmed protesters.
“The President additional defined that the directions given by the American Civil Liberties Union acknowledged that protesters weren’t permitted to dam authorities buildings and intrude with different functions the property was designed for,” the assertion stated.
“Addressing considerations relating to the GotaGoGama protest website, it was defined that it had not been eliminated by safety forces, opposite to faulty social media experiences,” it added.
Moreover, the contributors had been additionally briefed by the Legal professional Normal on the authorized avenues being pursued, together with producing all these arrested by the police earlier than the Colombo Justice of the Peace Court docket, it stated.
The protesters blocked the secretariat gate on April 9, demanding the resignation of then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
On July 9, they stormed the official residence of the president forcing him to flee to security and occupied his workplace, the location of the continual protest since April 9.
The removing of the protesters got here on the identical night time as Wickremesinghe took oaths because the succeeding president for the steadiness below three-year time period of Rajapaksa.
Protestors on Saturday stayed about 100 metres away from the Presidential Secretariat and held no protest in the course of the day.
The protest, often known as the Aragalaya – a Sinhalese phrase for “battle” – disrupted work for a protracted interval on the Presidential Secretariat, which has gone by means of heavy damages in the course of the agitation and requires mandatory renovations.
Protesters had been tenting exterior the presidential workplace for months, demanding the resignation of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the nation on July 13, and Wickremesinghe, a key Rajapaksa ally.
Throughout a gathering with the diplomatic personnel in Colombo on Friday, President Wickremesinghe affirmed that the Authorities will uphold each Article 21 of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 14 (1) (b) of the Structure of Sri Lanka, which governs the correct to peaceable meeting, stated an announcement issued by the President’s workplace.
The assertion got here as US Ambassador Julie Chung had taken the Lankan authorities to job for the assault on the unarmed protesters.
“The President additional defined that the directions given by the American Civil Liberties Union acknowledged that protesters weren’t permitted to dam authorities buildings and intrude with different functions the property was designed for,” the assertion stated.
“Addressing considerations relating to the GotaGoGama protest website, it was defined that it had not been eliminated by safety forces, opposite to faulty social media experiences,” it added.
Moreover, the contributors had been additionally briefed by the Legal professional Normal on the authorized avenues being pursued, together with producing all these arrested by the police earlier than the Colombo Justice of the Peace Court docket, it stated.
The protesters blocked the secretariat gate on April 9, demanding the resignation of then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
On July 9, they stormed the official residence of the president forcing him to flee to security and occupied his workplace, the location of the continual protest since April 9.
The removing of the protesters got here on the identical night time as Wickremesinghe took oaths because the succeeding president for the steadiness below three-year time period of Rajapaksa.
Protestors on Saturday stayed about 100 metres away from the Presidential Secretariat and held no protest in the course of the day.
The protest, often known as the Aragalaya – a Sinhalese phrase for “battle” – disrupted work for a protracted interval on the Presidential Secretariat, which has gone by means of heavy damages in the course of the agitation and requires mandatory renovations.