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To the executive arm. we met sri lanka's foreign minister and questioned him about whether the government is clamping down on the public�*s right to free speech and assembly. is the government cracking down on protests? if you have gone around the country, you can see everybody every day protesting. so there is no problem with that. but the moment the peaceful protest ceased to be peaceful, take the law into their own hands, law enforcement officers decide on that particular period of time. here is the threshold — they are breaking...breaching that threshold, violating the law. anything go...

In for questioning. so the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom to protest is under immense threat in sri lanka. we've been litigating in the public interest for the last 25 years. just in the last year, the new faces that come to court to challenge has been quite remarkable. some of the protesters have been arrested under a controversial law aimed at preventing terrorism. the government is now going further, proposing a new anti—terrorism act, or ata, as it's commonly referred to, which it says is needed to maintain stability. the ata, the problematic things are that it still...

Very broad powers that are given to the executive arm. we met sri lanka's foreign minister and questioned him about whether the government is clamping down on the public�*s right to free speech and assembly. is the government cracking down on protests? if you have gone around the country, you can see everybody every day protesting. so there is no problem with that. but the moment the peaceful protest ceased to be peaceful, take the law into their own hands, law enforcement officers decide on that particular period of time. here is the threshold — they are breaking...breaching that threshol...

There are continuous arrests, there's surveillance, there are people who are called in for questioning. so the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom to protest is under immense threat in sri lanka. we've been litigating in the public interest for the last 25 years. just in the last year, the new faces that come to court to challenge has been quite remarkable. some of the protesters have been arrested under a controversial law aimed at preventing terrorism. the government is now going further, proposing a new anti—terrorism act, or ata, as it's commonly referred to, which it say...