Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
The Election Commission (EC) has decided not to register political parties whose names have a reference to ethnicity or religion as, accoding to it,...
Image courtesy of CPJ.
Pegasus is a spyware created for mobile devices which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station. Researchers have documented it...
Image: This Ecocide mural was taken down by force.
By Navraj Singh-Ghaleigh and Asanga Welikala.
The Sri Lankan media is filled with worrying stories each day...
The Sri Lankan government has taken several decisions recently that indicates and exacerbates a worrying trend of increased marginalization and targeting of Sri Lanka’s...
Image: at OMP office 30 Aug 2019. Disappeared in the South (1988-89); (c) S.Deshapriya
The old/new F word: accountability
Accountability is a word that is being...
Image: President receives the final report of the PCoI into the Easter Sunday attack.
Sri Lanka has seen a dramatic proliferation of commissions of inquiry,...
Image: A priest conducts a mass burial for Easter Sunday bomb blast victims in Negombo, Sri Lanka on April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe/timesofisrael)
As...
“Please be informed”, says a notice from the Deputy Director of Customs, “that from today (05.03.2021) onwards, any Islamic religious books brought into the...
Image: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives at the Gangarama Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 26. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images/ Washington Post)
"Freedom...
Image: Sri Lankan journalists at the Black January vigil honour colleagues who were killed and abducted in that month over the years. Photograph: Indunil Usgoda...
Image: Ma Kyal Sin’s funeral in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Thursday. The 18-year-old woman was one of dozens of protesters who were shot dead the previous...
File photo: Ameer Faaiz speaking at a side event at UNHRC 2017 March. (c) s.deshapriya
This is an extremely challenging and fearful time for religious...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
I am going to explain about the Commission on Political Victimisation established by President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The Commission was set up to investigate acts...
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the timing and purpose of the Pakistan Prime...
Image: President Mahinda Rajapaksa was welcomed by Senior General Than Shwe, ruler of the Myanmar in June 2009.
The Burma (now Myanmar) was a British...
by Laurel E. Fletcher
Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says the Sri Lankan government has made clear it has no serious intention of pursuing...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
