The UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture will visit Sri Lanka next month, a OHCHR statement said.
In addition to visiting Sri Lanka the committee will also visit Palestine and Argentina along with other countries such as Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Senegal.
The visit to Sri Lanka will take place in early April, and a media advisory announcing the precise dates, as well as further information, is to be issued ahead of the visit.
The visits were decided during the Subcommittee’s confidential session held in Geneva from Feb 18 to 22.
To date, the Subcommittee has completed more than 65 visits. The Subcommittee has a mandate to visit states which have ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and assist those states in preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
The Subcommittee communicates its observations and recommendations to states through a confidential report, which it encourages countries to make public.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
An interim order prohibiting Deshabandu Tennakoon from carrying out his duties as Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been issued by the Supreme Court.
Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena has been sent on compulsory leave pending disciplinary investigation over his failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings.
The 22nd amendment to the constitution dealing with the term of the President has been gazetted by order of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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