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COLOMBO: Prisoners’ Rights Protection Committee has strongly condemned the actions by a group of prisoners who assaulted the peaceful protestors at the Temple Trees and at the Galle Face Green on Monday, May 9.
Organizer of the event,Attorney At Law Senaka Perera,Secretary of the Prisoners’ Rights Protection Committee Nandimal Silva and Nizar Mowlana and Thambaiah Jayaratnaraja were present at the press briefing.
Condemning the use of thugs from the prisons and from out, the committee lashed the ex-prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa for being responsible for such acts and said that legal action should be taken against him after arresting him. Such acts infringe the rights of the prisoners, the committee added.