Unrealized government commitments to pursue truth, justice and reparations, continued impunity for violations and abuses, compromised freedoms of religion and expression characterized 2019 for...
Since his election on 16 November 2019, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, have initiated fundamental changes to...
Image: SSP Shani Abeysekara.
Former Director of the CID, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shani Abeysekara has lodged a complaint today (28) claiming that he...
Image: US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells meeting Sri Lanka FM Dinesh Gunawardena.
On return home...
The government of Sri Lanka has decided to refrain from discussing resolution 30/1 at the upcoming 43rd session of the UNHRC reports pro-Rajapaksa web...
Jan 27, Colombo: The Presidential Commission inquiring into incidents of alleged political victimization has issued an order preventing the Permanent High Court from proceeding...
Major General (Retd.) Nanda Mallawarachchi has been appointed as the Director-General of the Department of Multi-Purpose Development Task Force, effective 8 January.
The aim of...
(January 26, 2020)
Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapakse had told U.N. Resident Coordinator Ms. Hanaa Singer that those reported missing from the war are “actually...
Image: Gotabhaya Rajapakse (AP Photo)
(K. Ratnayake/WSWS) US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice G. Wells delivered a letter...
Today, 10th January 2020, is 10 years since the disappearance of journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda. It also marks 10 years of struggle for truth...
Statement of urgent public importance pertaining to the Bungalow of the Leader of the Opposition and other matters related thereto.
Dear Hon. Speaker,
You recognized me...
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By Marc Daniel Davies/ Bloomberg.
The world’s richest 1% have more than twice the wealth of the rest of humanity combined, according...
Image: Maithripala Sirisena and his SLFP rump might get crushed in the internal clash over candidate selection.
The government might be called two-faced, not in...
Image: President Gotabaya is playing it cleverly. The Roman god Janus is depicted looking in two directions. (Photo: GR tweet)
The most important portion of...
Image: A Graffiti by a para military group.
More than 100,000 people from low income families with no formal education will be provided with employment...
Cartoon by @awanthaartigala .
Leaked phone conversations between a politician and judicial officers with more details due to emerge has led to the interdiction of a...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday informed the United Nations Resident Coordinator Hanna Singer his government would give support to families of missing persons in order...
Amnesty International is concerned by multiple reports of harassment, intimidation and attacks on human rights organisations, media outlets, and journalists in Sri Lanka. Amnesty...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved drafting of a new Bill titled ‘National Intelligence Act’ to regulate and empower all intelligence services, says the...
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the demeaning way the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Mulleriyawa Police has allegedly treated professional journalist Nimanthi...
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...
NPP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake makes hard hitting speech during last week's debate on the final report of the CoI into Political Victimisation.
There is...
