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...
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...
File photo from shethepeople.tv.
Increasing female labour force participation has been a challenge for the country. These
challenges are even greater for night-work and shift-work (hence...
File photo.
Sri Lanka’s covid-19 ‘dark riders’ and the urgent need to correct ourselves.
The fearsome sight of armed motorcycle riders, clad in black, complete with...
Image: Gotabaya Rajapaksa with his brothers, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chamal Rajapaksa (R) in Sri Lanka on October 7, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte/Files (The Wire)
The...
Image: Daily FT/Shehan Gunasekara.
In 2019, with no global pandemic, the Sirisena-Rajapaksa administration set aside Rs. 188 billion for health. In 2020, amidst a global...
By Shihar Aneez
COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When women at a Sri Lankan garment factory started to develop coughs and fevers, few took it seriously...
The government has taken steps to draft a new constitution for Sri Lanka, which is likely to replace the existing constitution in toto, including its...
Media Release to commemorate the 'International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists' observed on November 02
While it is the responsibility of any...
Image: File photo of high Court judges in Sri Lanka.
Eyebrows are being raised over the 20th Amendment to the Constitution’s inclusion of provisions at...
Image: (c)Shehan Gunasekara/Daily FT
On 15 October, the Sri Lankan authorities imposed a curfew in parts of Katunayake Free Trade Zone (KFTZ) after hundreds of...
Dear Secretary Pompeo:
I am writing on behalf of Amnesty International and our 10 million members, supporters
and activists worldwide. Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is...
Amendments give Gotabaya Rajapaksa powers to sack ministers and limit oversight.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivers a policy speech in the Colombo parliament on 20 August...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Even as frightened and hapless garment workers slaving in the multitude of factories in the Gampaha District, the epicentre of Sri Lanka’s calamitous covid-19...
The Sri Lankan authorities must release prominent human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah, who has been held in detention for more than six months under...
Image: Army commander and police spokesperson brief media regularly on Covid 19 situation.
The largest cluster of corona patients in the country might not have...
Image: Activists campaign against the 20th A.
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express.
Colombo, October 11 (newsin.asia): In the determination on the 20th Constitution Amendment Bill leaked to the Sunday...
(INFORM) This report provides some general trends and details of some significant incidents related to the repression of dissent in Sri Lanka in the...
Rights activist Ms. Ermiza Tegal, Attorney-at-law, pointed out that 30 sections of the 20th amendment to the constitution are contrary to democracy while three...
With the Supreme Court’s Determination on the 20th Amendment Bill being made available in the public domain, some aspects of the ruling warrant immediate attention....
What were the main weaknesses of the 19A?
The 19A was brought to democratize the state. This was an underlying necessity because from 2005-2015, especially...
Cropped photo from the original by Sindu S
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...
