Sri Lanka: Detainees Decry Poor Conditions and Indefinite Detention in Welisara Detention Centre 

In recent weeks, the Global Detention Project has received several testimonies from a group of people held in immigration detention in Sri Lanka, depicting troubling detention conditions and instances of indefinite immigration detention. The accounts of their treatment at the Welisara Detention Centre reflect wider concerns about the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in the country, including the arbitrary detention of children and asylum seekers. […]

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A fishing vessel carrying refugees from Myanmar is pictured as it nears the Sri Lankan coast, December 2024 (screengrab from @lankafiles)