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Free Trade Zone workers : Complaint over unsafe quarantine

19 Oct 2020

Representatives of several organisations that work with Free Trade Zone (FTZ) workers lodged a complaint against Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva with the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) regarding unsafe and brutal treatment of factory workers while taking them for the quarantine process. Namely, Chamila Thushari of the Dabindu Collective Katunayake, Ashila Dandeniya of the Stand Up Movement Lanka, Chandra Devanarayana of the Revolutionary Existence for Human Development, and Sr. Noel Christine Fernando of the Sramabimani Kendraya noted that 98 workers of an apparel factory in Katunayake who were taken for the quarantine process were treated brutally and inhumanely, with several of them complaining that they did not have enough time to collect their belongings, and that they weren’t offered any food or were offered inedible food. The HRCSL was requested to look into this matter in order to prevent the violation of human rights of apparel factory workers during the pandemic situation.  


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