Sri Lanka imposes curfew after president declares emergency ...Qatar

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Sri Lanka’s government imposed a weekend curfew yesterday, even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to revoke a state of emergency introduced following unrest over fuel and other shortages in a deep economic crisis. The government’s information department said a countrywide curfew would run from 6pm (1230 GMT) since yesterday to 6am (0030 GMT) tomorrow. Rajapaksa introduced a state of emergency on Friday, raising fears of a crackdown on protests. Emergency powers in the past have allowed the military to arrest and detain suspects without warrants, but the terms of the current powers are not yet clear. The Indian Ocean island nation of 22mn people is grappling with roll

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