The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is set to visit Sri Lanka later this year.
The visit by the Working Group will take place from the 4th to the 15th of December 2017.
The announcement of the visit comes after United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence Pablo de Greiff’s visit to Sri Lanka next month.
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