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(15 Dec 2017) A visiting group of United Nations human rights experts says that Sri Lanka is yet to respect the right to personal liberty in dealing with crime and other issues and calls for urgent reforms to address excessive detention and reliance on confessions often extracted under torture or duress.
A three-member delegation of the U.N Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded a 10-day visit to the island nation on Friday.
They told reporters that individual liberty is being deprived in a range of facilities like police stations, prisons, open work camps, centers for juveniles, mental health institutions and rehabilitation camps for former combatants and drug addicts.
They said the detainees in general did not even enjoy some of the basic guarantees of due process like immediate access to legal counsel.

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