Under the HRCSL Act, No. 21 of 1996, Sections 10 & 11 the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka notes with extremely deep concern that there have been several public arrests linked to a comedy show held in Colombo several weeks ago. In particular, the HRCSL is aware that Jayani Natasha Edirisuriya was arrested for allegedly insulting the Buddhist religion in April of this year and is under court order and is now being held in remand until June 7th, 2021. We have been further advised that there have been additional arrests related to this incident which we informed happened at a theatre in Colombo more than one month ago.

Download: HRCSL Press Notice 02/06/2023(English)