UN Rights Chief Voices Concern Over SL's Counter-terrorism Laws

Expresses concern over appointments to Office of Missing Persons and Office for Reparations

- Sunil Jayasiri

I am concerned by further Government measures perceived as targeting Muslims, and by the harassment of Tamils - Bachelet

While expressing her concern over the recent appointments to Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons and Office for Reparations, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet yesterday noted ‘a continuing series of deaths in police custody and in the context of police encounters with alleged criminal gangs’.