{"id":86615,"date":"2025-11-14T01:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=86615"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:07:46","slug":"86615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=86615","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJustice for All\u201dwants Govt  to make public the report and draft Bill Submitted to the  Justice Minister by the Committee appointed to draft the Act to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Text of Press Release Issued by &#8220;Justice for all&#8221; on 14 November 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have seen news reports that the Committee appointed to draft the Act to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act handed over its report and the draft bill to the Minister of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Prevention of Terrorism Temporary Provisions Act No. 48 of 1979 has universally been regarded as a draconian piece of legislation that must be taken off from the statute books for quite a long time now. Justice for All has always consistently advocated for the complete repeal of the PTA.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Election Manifesto also promises to repeal the same. We are hopeful that the new draft bill will fully reflect this promise.<\/p>\n<p>We call upon the government, and the Minister of Justice in particular, to make public the said report and the draft bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Signed by:<br \/>\n<em>1.\tProf. Jayadeva Uyangoda<br \/>\n2.\tDr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne, PC<br \/>\n3.\tEran Wickremaratne<br \/>\n4.\tA M Faaiz<br \/>\n5.\tM A Sumanthiran PC<br \/>\n6.\tShanakiyan Rasamanickam MP<br \/>\n7.\tBhavani Fonseka<br \/>\n8.\tErmiza Tegal<br \/>\n9.\tNadishani Perera<br \/>\n10.\tJerusha Crosette \u2013 Thambiah<br \/>\n11.\tSwasthika Arulingam<br \/>\n12.\tRavinthiran Niloshan<br \/>\n13.\tBenislos Thushan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton86615\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D86615&amp;text=%E2%80%9CJustice%20for%20All%E2%80%9Dwants%20Govt%20%20to%20make%20public%20the%20report%20and%20draft%20Bill%20Submitted%20to%20the%20%20Justice%20Minister...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Text of Press Release Issued by &#8220;Justice for all&#8221; on 14 November 2025) We have seen news reports that the Committee appointed to draft the Act to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act handed over its report and the draft bill to the Minister of Justice. The Prevention of Terrorism Temporary Provisions Act No. 48 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=86615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;\u201cJustice for All\u201dwants Govt  to make public the report and draft Bill Submitted to the  Justice Minister by the Committee appointed to draft the Act to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86617,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86615\/revisions\/86617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}