A significant problem facing the average Sri Lankan citizen is the real possibility of being illegally arrested, illegally held long past the judicial period of 24 hours and brutally tortured to confess to a crime or crimes they have no knowledge of.
There is a huge list of arrests of this type which anyone from a western culture would dismiss out of han…
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