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Sri Lanka: prison overcrowding can’t be solved with hangings, says CPRP
In response to the Prisons Commissioner’s remarks that drug traffickers sentenced to death should be hanged, the Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) criticised the statement, saying that executions are not the solution to Sri Lanka’s prison overcrowding.
Source: Daily Mirror (25/10/2025)