Kissing is 'indecent behaviour' (Guess which country)

Jun 10, 2010
Kissing is 'indecent behaviour'

COLOMBO (Sri Lanka) - SRI Lankan police have rounded up hundreds of young lovers for kissing in public following complaints that the overt displays of affection caused embarrassment to others, an official said Thursday. Nearly 200 couples have been briefly detained in the districts of Matara and Kurunegala over the past two weeks, police spokesman Prashantha Jayakody told AFP. 'We have taken them into custody for indecent behaviour at a public place,' Jayakody said.

'Usually we free them after informing their parents. Charges are not pressed.' A resident in the town of Matara, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Colombo, said young couples were sometimes acting intimately on the beach as many could not afford the privacy of hotels.Sri Lankan police are also known to occasionally round up so-called 'umbrella lovers' who shelter under parasols in scorching sun along the coastal promenade in the capital. -- AFP

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Police have arrested nearly 200 young couples in Kurunegala and Matara accusing of indecent behavior. But the young couples say they were only kissing, cuddling or simply holding hands, when they were arrested.

350 youngsters have been detained and reprimanded in the past two weeks in Kurunegala. In Kurunegala many of the girls involved are said to be school students aged only about 15years. Police said 22 allegedly offending couples are to appear before court on Friday.

These towns are major centers of education and reports say lots of students have been hanging around in public parks and bus stands. Police say ordinary townsfolk have been getting increasingly annoyed and embarrassed by the indecent behavior by hundreds of young people.
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