The power to issue detention orders for suspects arrested on terrorism-related activities should be given to a Deputy Inspector of Police instead of a...
Image: Sri Lankan soldiers and police went around neighbourhoods smashing lamps and destroying banana trees and festival decorations and threatening residents.
Sri Lankan police arrested...
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Sri Lankan police across Batticaloa have arrested 19 people for allegedly posting birthday wishes online for Liberation...
In a letter addressed to Commissioner General of Prison, HRCSL has said that "the health and security of all prisoners including remandees, remain the...
1. Senior Superintendent of Police and former Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Director Shani Abeysekara was arrested on 31 July 2020, by the Colombo Crime...
The daughter of murdered journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge and four other family members of missing persons have requested the Attorney General to provide urgent medical...
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Issuing observations and recommendations on the disposal of dead bodies in
the context of COVID-19 Human Rights Commission of Sri...
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Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundara has sent a letter ordering all state institutions including state banks and insurance companies...
Image: MSP Monica Lennon (second left) with campaigners against period poverty outside Scotland's Parliament in February.
By Rob Picheta and Ivana Kottasová, CNN.
London (CNN). Scotland has become...
Sri Lankan police officers interrogated Tamil Guardian’s Batticaloa correspondent and Batticaloa Press Club (BPC) Secretary, Selvakumar Nilanthan at his home, for highlighting the military-assisted...
Ramani Muttettuwegama, the commissioner in charge of Investigations & Inquiries at the HRCSL has requested C. D.C. Wickremaratne, Acting Inspector General of Police to...
The human rights environment in Sri Lanka worsened, with the continuation of surveillance and intimidation of activists and human rights defenders, the detention without...
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Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya Member of Parliament Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is accusing the government of targeting media-persons critical of the government...
Image: There is widespread concern about the militarisation of the COVID response and broader militarisation under the cover of COVID. Yet, militarisation too is...
The President delivered his one year in office statement yesterday.
He urged the Sinhalese that their existential fears should not be a matter of concern...
19 November 2020, COLOMBO - As COVID-19 continues to bring a number of challenges, we, the Colombo-based Heads of Missions representing the European Union and...
The Federation of University Teacher’s Associations (FUTA) strongly condemns the unjust and arbitrary attempts by the Urban Development Authority (UDA) to take over the...
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Ven. Jamburawela Chandraratne Thera, representing the People's Responsibility Centre (PRC), has criticised the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator to Sri Lanka, Hanaa...
A Jaffna-based journalist, was attacked and had his phone stolen by a group of unidentified persons, last Wednesday.
The group broke into S. Mukunthan’s home in...
Guilt by Association
In the immediate aftermath of the Easter Sunday Attacks of 21stApril, 2019, hundreds of
Muslims were rounded up and arrested under the PTA...
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This infographic highlights progress and remaining challenges for women in a range of areas, from politics, to literacy, to wages and...
Attorney-at-law Senaka Perera says that the death of persons taken into custody by the police cannot be justified under any circumstances.
Activist Perera questioned the...
People’s Rights Group (PRG), a rights based advocacy and lobbying group based in the UK particularly dealing with human rights violations in Sri Lanka...
Sri Lanka: Constitutional amendment a blow to human rights; rights groups call for a special review of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission
(Bangkok/Geneva, 11...
