Image: Justice Upali Abeyrathna handing over the final report of the Commission on Political Victimisation to President Rajapaksa.
In a letter addressed to United Nations...
Image: A scene from the film ‘paangshu’
Human rights issues related to enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka still continue. The grievances and the anxieties of...
Tamil families of the disappeared rallied across the North-East today to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Families demonstrated in districts...
Mandates of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; ; the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; the Special Rapporteur on...
For the third successive year, Families of the Disappeared (FoD) celebrated the “Missing Lovers Day" On 14th February in Colombo at the Vihara Maha Devi...
The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) was established under the Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration, and Discharge of Functions) Act, No. 14 of...
Image: Attorney General (left) and Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda (right) at the 70th Independence Day celebration.
One of the stranger if not outlandish manifestations...
Jan 27, Colombo: The Presidential Commission inquiring into incidents of alleged political victimization has issued an order preventing the Permanent High Court from proceeding...
(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...
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...
(OFFICE ON MISSING PERSONS/MEDIA RELEASE/15 January 2020)
Recent media reports have claimed that the government plans to review the Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration...
Sri Lanka Brief. - Post Presidential Election Update No 03/16 December 2019.
Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa presented a cabinet paper in the...
The CID yesterday informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne that there was no evidence to show any connection to an alleged abduction of the...
The mainstream media coverage of the the Swiss Embassy employee who was allegedly kidnapped and later released has come under criticism for unethical behavior....
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday extended the travel ban imposed on Swiss Embassy employee Garliar Barister Francis, who was allegedly threatened and kidnapped...
Image: Swiss Embassy, Colombo (Swissinfo)
Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) Chief Dr. Deepika Udagama yesterday (03) said investigators should be given to access...
Image: Sri Lankan ambassador to Switzerland, Karunasena Hettiarachchi.
Press release, 02.12.2019.
Following several demarches from the FDFA over the incident concerning an employee of the Swiss...
Image: Minister Rajitha Senaratne with the ‘White Van’ drivers at the press conference yesterday.Picture by Kelum Liyanage.
The Government will begin investigations into the rest...
Image: Trinco Navy camp where abducted 11 youth were held.
The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) has decided to raise their concerns with President Maithripala...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
