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...
Image: The issue of enforced disappearances has never been properly investigated in Sri Lanka.
President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is to appoint a new Commission of Inquiry...
GENEVA, (15 January 2021) - The Human Rights Council today elected Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office...
Inmates protest on the roof a prison building calling for speedier judicial processes and increased protection amid rising cases of Covid-19, Colombo, Sri Lanka,...
Families of Tamil political prisoners, civil society organizations and civilians of North East Sri-Lanka launched a weeklong prayer campaign from 7th to 14th January...
Image courtesy heartresearch.com.au.
Joint Statement against the Sri Lankan Government for the continued destruction of the people's fundamental rights and reconciliation process!
Memorials can be destroyed,...
The ICJ today deplored the comprehensive failure of the Sri Lankan authorities to ensure accountability for conflict-era crimes, marked by the dropping of charges...
Kamanthi Wickramasinghe.
As Ahnaf Jazeem languishes in detention for writing poems that were said to have advocated peace and harmony, many academics and human rights...
Image: Police baricades Jaffna University after demolising the memorial for war dead. ( Photo- Pragas Gnanapragasam tweeter)
In yet another act of systematic racism and...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today informed Colombo Fort Magistrate that the Ministry of Defence had approved the detention and interrogation of Attorney-at-Law Hejaz...
The Attorney General’s Department (AG) has decided to drop the case against Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan in connection to the murder of former Parliamentarian...
The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP—acting on behalf of Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of acclaimed Sri Lankan journalist...
File photo: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is with President Rajapaksa.
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wholeheartedly welcomes the statement by Indian External Affairs...
The National Movement for a Just Society, over the past few months, held regular press briefings to present various issues. By having regular briefings,...
Image: Chinese influence in Sri Lanka could be seen even on signboards!
US President signed coronavirus relief Bill which also provides some foreign aid
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Tamil nationalistic politics which have been overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and related politics seems #to be gaining momentum with the next session of...
Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by unknown assailants...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed an active pro-government politician to lead the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka.
He has replaced the current Commission with...
Image: Fabian Salviol (left) & Diego García-Sayán (right)
Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs, namely, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, and Fabian...
18 young people from Kattankudy, Eastern province, Sri Lanka have been arrested and detained under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act according to reports...
GR’s strategy of containing the political damage caused by his failure to win the economic war by winning the parallel war fought against minorities...
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...
