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Pakyasothy Saravanamuththu a civil society activist and the Executive Director of Centre for Policy Alternative (CPA) who requested an investigation regarding hate speech comments made by Asgiri Chapter Chief Buddhist prelate faced reprisals from Buddhist monks and ethnonationalist groups.

On or around 27th of June Buddhist Information Centre made a complaint to the Police Headquarters in Colombo asking to take legal action against him under ICCPR Act for making ‘extremist statements’.