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Sri Lanka tests UN's patience on human rights
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UPDATED: Dec 17, 2022, 5:19:38 AM
Mr Komahan, 40, is among thousands of Tamils and others detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in recent decades.
Successive governments dominated by the Sinhalese majority used the PTA primarily to arrest those suspected of links with the separatist Tamil Tigers until the rebels' defeat in 2009.
But more than a decade after the civil war ended, the act is still in use and Sri Lanka is under pressure to reform it.
The island's access to lucrative export markets in Europe depends on it making progress on human rights.