Police refuted claims circulating yesterday that the protesters at Galle Face Green GotaGoGama had been ordered to evacuate.
Senior Police Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana denied such action and said that no orders had been issued for the protesters to be removed.
Those at the protest site clarifying the incident said that the curfew notice issued by the police had been played on the Presidential Secretariat public address system, and it was not the police.
They said that the police nor the military had ordered them to leave the peaceful protest.