The Police Media Division issued a statement on the recent arrest of protesters who marched at the Colombo Lipton Circle yesterday afternoon (24) in the form of a demonstration organised by the Socialist Youth Union (SYU) against the recently decreed High-Security Zones, calling the movement ‘illegal’ and revealing that 83 persons were taken into custody.
Among the arrestees are 77 men, 04 women and 02 Buddhist monks, Police said.
The demonstrators avoided repeated warnings by the Police to dissolve themselves and marched forward, and the arrests were made given the protest’s illegal nature, because it obstructed traffic and the public walking on the road, and to avoid the risk of them entering the High-Security Zones, and accordingly, the march was dissolved by force and 83 persons were arrested, the statement said.
MIAP
