Sanath Jayasuriya condemns using PTA to crack down protesters

by Lanka Sara Editor

August 23, 2022

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In this photograph taken on August 9, 2016, Sri Lankan chief cricket selector Sanath Jayasuriya speaks during an interview with AFP in Colombo. Batting legend Sanath Jayasuriya has urged Sri Lanka's cricketers to seize the chance of making history by completing a series whitewash over world number one Test team Australia. With the outcome of the three-match contest already in the bag, Sri Lanka might be tempted to take their foot off the gas in the final Test which begins in Colombo on August 13.. / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Sanath Jayasuriya, the world-renowned Sri Lankan cricketer and the newly appointed Ambassador of Sri Lanka Tourism, has condemned the government for using the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to crack down on anti-government protesters.

In a twitter message, he says
“It is deeply concerning to see so many arrests of protesters and detaining some under terrorism laws. We are slowly limping to normalcy. This is the time to look forward not backwards. To error is human to forgive devine.”