Students of the Medical Faculty in Karapitiya staged a protest opposite the faculty.The protest was against the arrest of the Convenor of the Inter-Univerity Students Federation Navindra Weerasekera,  and the suppressing of student activists.

Chairman of the Medical Faculty Students Union, Ruwin Dimantha stated that the government that speaks of Good Governance has today entered a process of suppressing the other forces.

He further called on the Government of Good Governance to immediately put a stop to the suppressing of students and cautioned that “if not the students movement will come together and will topple the government.

The protest lasted for almost one hour.

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