image: Michelle Bachelet Jeria with UNSG.
Jaffna/30 January 2019.
Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet Jeria
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for...
Image: FMM team in front of the Human Rights Commission, Sri Lanka.
Press Release/2019-01-29.
The Human Rights Commission is ready to accept any basic information that...
On 16th January 2019,leaked video footage was released to the media, showing brutal and systematic assault on detainees at the Angunakolapalessa prison in the Southern...
Jan 30, 2019.
The plurality of religions is a reality of the human experience. All religions acknowledge this fact undeniably. No religion encourages blasphemous or...
Image: Rev. Gnansara known for his anti Muslim hate speeches an inciting violence.
30th January 2019.
Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) is concerned by reports indicating a...
by Shashik Dhanushka and Praveen Tilakaratne.
The silent protest against ‘Unethical Media Practice’ held on the 11th January 2019 by several civil society activists and...
A group of concerned citizens have drafted a petition addressed to President Sirisena requesting to (a) Guarantee that Gnanasara will not be released on 4th...
The letter signed by a set of powerful Buddhist leaders including two Mahanayakes and the Diyawadana Nilame of Dalada Maligawa, and addressed to Buddha...
Conduct proper investigation into the incident where Journalist Rahul Samantha Hettiarachchi was prevented from doing his duty - Free Media Movement.
Journalist Rahul Samantha Hettiarachchi...
Prof.S.W.R.D. Samarasinghe.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa recently announced at a meeting of Viyath Maga, of which he is president that he was ready to contest the next...
Image: Protest against the assault on Upali Tennakoon was held in Colombo immediately after the incident.
“I have no wish to return since the individuals...
The speech make by R. Sampannthan in the parliament today (25.01.2019 follows.
Leader of the Opposition Sri Lankan Parliament
Honorable Speaker
Parliament
Jayewardenepura Kotte
Sir,
I seek your leave to...
In a letter to Ms. Hanaa Singer, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations, Sri Lanka, media organistations says that " We do not want the assurances of...
By Tharindi Pabasara.
The indictments against the seven defendants including former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa pertaining to the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum case have been read...
The Westminster Magistrate’s Court has issued an arrest warrant for Brigadier Priyanka Fernando of the Sri Lankan army earlier today, having found him guilty...
Image: Activists heve renewed their call for prison reforms and accountability inside Sri Lankan jailhouses, after horrifying footage surfaced last week of a vicious...
From Colombo to Giritale to Akkaraipattu, CID sleuths have pieced together the abduction of journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda on January 24, 2010 and linked it...
Commission will cover period between Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2018.
Retired SC judge will head five member Commission.
Probe will cover acts of corruption, fraud, criminal...
The Constitutional Expert Committee’s report, which was tabled in the Sri Lankan parliament on Friday abolishes the powerful Executive Presidency and replaces it by...
Image: Weerawansa is a very close associate of Rajapaksa.
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka has vehemently condemned MP Wimal Weerawansa for casting aspersions on...
Cartoon by Avantha Artigala.
White vans and ‘black media’ aside (which I will return to later), Sri Lanka has seen politicians insulting judges in Parliament...
Proponents of militarisation claim the Sri Lanka military is more efficient, competent & uses public resources more prudently than SL public service. Findings of...
Writing a letter to President Rajapaksa, detained MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife says that “the PCoI report had found Gnanasara Thero and his activities as one...
