Excerpts from the address by Mahinda Samarasinghe, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights at the Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka, Working Group of the UN Human Rights Council yesterday in Geneva.

THE MEMBER of Parliament for Gary McKinnon's home town has appealed for him to serve time in a British jail if he is convicted of hacking charges in a US court.

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