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Human Rights Watch
We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing detention of poet and teacher, Ahnaf Jazeem, who has now been detained for a year without charge. We call on the Sri Lankan authorities to immediately release Ahnaf Jazeem, or promptly charge him with internationally recognizable criminal offences and try him in accordance with international fair trial standards.
Ahnaf Jazeem (pen name, Mannaramuthu Ahnaf) is a 26-year-old poet and teacher who was arrested on 16 May 2020 under Sri Lanka’s draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The arrest was in connection to a Tamil-language poetry anthology called Navarasam (நவரசம்), which he wrote and published in July 2017, as well as other unsubstantiated claims of exposing his students to ‘extremist’ content with the intention of turning them into followers of ‘extremist ideology’. His arrest comes against a backdrop of increased marginalisation and discrimination targeting
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Posted on April 26th, 2021
Ratanapala
26 April
2021
It was
reported on Sri Lankan media about an incident involving two Muslim youths at Pannala
in Ibbagamuwa, receiving injuries while making what is supposed to be
fireworks. The news also says that the local Police together the Police Special
Task Force are investigating with the assistance of the Government Analyst
Department.
It is very
clear from the description of the incident that the two youths Abdul Muhthalib
Mujibur Rahman and Abdul Muthalib Mohammed Mufsil were making a rudimentary
Pipe Bomb.
Wikipedia
explains a pipe bomb as follows:
A pipe
bomb is an improvised
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