Dissanayake v. Sri Lanka

Comment:

A request for interim measures was denied by the Special Rapporteur.

Substantive issues:

• arbitrary detention - arrest
• cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
• discrimination on other grounds
• discrimination on the ground of political or other opinion
• forced or compulsory labour
• freedom of opinion and expression
• liberty of person
• non-retroactivity
• restrictions of rights
• torture
• voting and election

Substantive articles:

• 7
• 8 (3) (b)
• 9 (1)
• 15 (1)
• 19 (2)
• 19 (3)
• 25 (b)
• 26

Procedural issues:

• interim measures

Procedural articles:

• 2