Sri Lanka Detains Rapper Over Video

Click to expand Image Lawyers hold signs during a protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 23, 2022. © 2022 Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images Police in Sri Lanka have arrested a rapper on terrorism charges over the video of a song he posted online. It is the latest abuse of a draconian counterterrorism law still in use years after successive governments have promised to repeal it. Sangeethsan Ganeskumar, 24, known by his stage name Hiphop Sangee, was d