Aug. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Sri Lanka police have dispersed with tear gas to a group of protesters who protested this Thursday in a suburb in Colombo the same day the state of emergency decreed in July in July in the framework of the serious economic crisis that the country ravages.
The march, organized by the Federation of Interuniversity Students (IUSF) in a suburb in Colombo, has been convened to demand that the authorities free activists who have been arrested during these last months of protests, as collected by the newspaper ‘The The Daily Mirror ‘.
The president of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, announced this week that he will not extend the state of emergency decreed in July after the application of this exceptional measure received criticism from human rights organizations.
WickRemesinghe believes that circumstances no longer occur to prolong the state of emergency and has promised to carry in exchange a series of reforms to alleviate social discontent, including providing more power to Parliament and changing the electoral system.
The current president assumed the reins of Sri Lanka after the departure of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, besieged by unprecedented mobilizations with which citizens cried against the worst economic crisis of the last decades. Last week four months were completed since the beginning of this demonstrations, with a decrease in participation in protests.
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