\Overbroad and vague emergency laws fail to meet basic human rights and criminal justice safeguards, and in some cases grant immunity from prosecution, the ICJ said in a new 47-page analysis brief.
The ICJ called upon the Government of Sri Lanka to initiate a wholesale review of the existing framework of emergency and counter-terrorism laws.
SriLanka-emergencylaws-advocacy-analysis brief 2009 (full text, PDF)