Tag: HumanRights

Overcrowding, drugs and system failures fueled Sri Lanka’s deadliest prison riot

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Speed Read: The Negombo Prison riot became one of Sri Lanka's deadliest prison disturbances in decades with 28 fatalities. Authorities are...

‘We escaped at midnight’: How debt bondage traps Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamil tea workers

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Speed Read: Tea workers allege debt bondage and restrictions on movement in Sri Lanka's private estates. Amnesty International documents labor abuses...

From Sri Lanka to Gaza’s waters: Sameera’s chilling account of detention, defiance and hope

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After days in detention and treating injured activists with improvised medical supplies, a mother of two, humanitarian worker and...