Sri Lanka court orders halt to student demonstration

The Colombo Magistrate's Court Friday ordered the police to halt a demonstration by a group of university students in view of serious security situation in the capital Colombo, court officials said.

For the last 17 days, student activists of the Sabaragamuva University have been staging a protest demonstration opposite the Ministry of Higher Education in downtown Colombo.

The court ordered the police to compel the students to give up protest action in view of the threatening security situation in the capital in the aftermath of two bomb attacks blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.

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