Why Sri Lanka did not arrest its nationals who joined Islamic State

http://bit.ly/2vm4tmD Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the country needs new laws to deal with threats posed by local terror outfits linked to ISIS.The government knew that Sri Lankan nationals who joined the Islamic State had returned, but they could not be arrested as joining a foreign terrorist organisation is not against the law in the island nation.

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