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Sri Lanka lawyers urge backtrack on state of emergency
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s influential lawyers’ body Saturday urged the president to repeal a state of emergency, which was imposed after a general strike brought the already bankrupt country to a halt.Months of blackouts and acute shortages of food, fuel and medicines have caused widespread suffering across the South Asian island nation, which is enduring its worst-ever economic downturn.President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a fresh state of emergency on Friday after weeks of protests demanding his government step down over its mismanagement of the crisis.The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) said it was “gravely concerned” about the move, which gave sweeping detention powers to the military an

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