Court bans protests to be staged on SAITM today

27 Jun, 2017

The Colombo Chief Magistrate issued an order against two protests scheduled to be staged today on the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM).

One protest was scheduled to be staged against SAITM while the other was in support of SAITM.

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