The Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) claims that 27 student activists, including its Convenor Madushan Chandrajith, were arrested during a police raid at the Satyagraha site outside the Ministry of Health in Colombo late last night.
The students had been engaged in a continuous protest campaign demanding the immediate recruitment of Allied Health graduates from state universities into the public sector. They also called for the cancellation of what they describe as a “manipulated examination scheme” favouring private degree holders.
According to the IUSF, the arrests were made in the dead of night when police forces arrived and forcibly removed the protesters from the site. The federation condemned the arrests, alleging state repression against students standing up for free education. (NewsWire)
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