CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekera. Picture by Gayan Pushpika, DN.
Senior Superintendent of Police Shani Abeysekera, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department told the Parliament...
Image: Sirisena invited Gnanasara and his mother to his office after pardoning him.
20th of June 2019: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and its Executive Director,...
OIC press release/03.06/2019.
Communal violence targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka has regional and global security implications. The developing situation over the past few days has...
Image: Ceylon Chamber of Commerce deeply concerned about the possibility that events that threaten the law and order situation in the country, will unfold and...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) said yesterday President Maithripala Sirisena should not have exercised his executive powers arbitrarily when pardoning Galagodaaththe Gnanasara...
CPA Statement on the Presidential Pardon of Gnanasara Thero.
24th May 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka – The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) expresses its deep shock and...
The Tamil National Alliance unequivocally condemns the President’s act of pardoning Ven. Gnanasara Thero by abusing the Constitutional powers vested in the Head of...
C.A. Chandraprema, a columnist in The Island has written a hard hitting commentary on Monk Ganansara and his alleged backers. Chandraprema is the editor...
Image:Police said the warrant for the arrest of Galagodaatte Gnanasara relates to an accusation of insulting the Koran that dates back to April 2014, months...
A Buddhist shrine in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka, July 2016. (Photo: Open Doors International)
There have been over 20 violent incidents against Christians so far...
Image: BBS leader Gnanasara with his body guards
Who is a Buddhist? That’s a simple question but one that can yield innumerable answers.
The innumerability of...
He’s back.
After a year in the shadows, Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the controversial monk who leads the radical Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena, is front...
Pandemonium reigned at the Homagama Magistrate's Court premises with three Buddhist monks threatening to self-immolate in protest against the arrest of Bodu Bala Sena...
The Government's move to come down hard against purveyors of hate speech is most opportune given the increasingly strident forms the speeches made by...
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) today called upon the newly elected president to re-investigate religious killings which had occurred in the country under...
By Jenny Gao
This Thursday, Tudor Silva, Senior Professor of Sociology from the University of Peradeniya, gave a talk about Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), an...
As the government represents people from all social and ethical backgrounds, President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the ‘genuine’ common candidate of the nation, General Secretary...
Controversial Myanmar monk Wirathu attends a meeting of Buddhist monks at a monastery near Yangon in June 2013. Sri Lanka's main nationalist group will...
“If any Muslim extremist group attack the world heritage of Boro Budur Buddhist temple Complex in Indonesia which consists of 504 Buddha statues the...
Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving. Despite early efforts that...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
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...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
