Thursday, February 9, 2012

Pera U’grads protest against police



By Cyril Wimalasurendre, The Island.

KANDY – Peradeniya University undergraduates staged a massive demonstration, in Kandy yesterday (08), demanding that the police drop charges against twenty five undergraduates, who were arrested and charged with being involved in illegal and inhuman activities.

Three were remanded while the rest were released on bail by the Magistrate’s Court a week ago.

The demonstrators shouted slogans and displayed posters as the police moved about in large numbers at Dalada Veediya.

The campaign lasted for about one hour in the afternoon.