{"id":133422,"date":"2023-04-01T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133422"},"modified":"2023-04-01T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:24:47","slug":"no-fundamental-change-to-new-anti-terrorism-bill-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/01\/no-fundamental-change-to-new-anti-terrorism-bill-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"No fundamental change to new Anti-Terrorism Bill: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In the face of criticism against the new Anti-Terrorism&nbsp; Bill, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said the government would&nbsp; not bring about any fundamental changes to the current version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill, already announced in the gazette notification, is&nbsp; to be presented in Parliament for debate and enactment. This is to be&nbsp; enacted by repealing the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which was invoked&nbsp; mainly in dealing with LTTE terrorism.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the war was over, the government came under pressure&nbsp; from sections of the international community, including the United&nbsp; Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to repeal the PTA to be replaced&nbsp; with a new law that conforms to international standards in countering&nbsp; terrorism.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parties such as the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have&nbsp; already raised objections to the provisions of the new bill. However,&nbsp; Minister Rajapakshe said the bill was worked after studying counter-terrorism laws of the countries such as the United States, India, the&nbsp; United Kingdom and Germany.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are even more rigorous than ours. Therefore, we won\u2019t&nbsp; make any major change to the current version. There may be minor&nbsp; changes,\u201d he said.<strong>(Kelum Bandara)&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the face of criticism against the new Anti-Terrorism&nbsp; Bill, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said the government would&nbsp; not bring about any fundamental changes to the current version. The bill, already announced in the gazette notification, is&nbsp; to be presented in Parliament for debate and enactment. This is to be&nbsp; enacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}