Cartoon: Sajith Bandara @tmdsbekanayaka, Norway and Germany have expressed deep concern regarding the Sri Lankan President’s decision to resume executions in the country for drug offenders. “Norway is deeply concerned that Sri Lanka intends to implement the death penalty, which would put an end to Sri Lanka’s 43-year moratorium on the use of this cruel and […]
Death penalty
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Sri Lanka: EU hints that resuming death penalty may affect GSP + concession
Issuing a statement on President Sirisena’s statement that he has authorized to carry out death penalty for 4 convicted prisoners in the death raw, the European Union says that it will continue to monitor Sri Lanka’s effective implementation of the 27 international conventions relating to the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) commitment, including the International […]
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Sri Lanka President’s anti-drug campaign: For real or a farce? – Ranga Jayasuriya
Is President Maithripala Sirisena’s anti-narcotic campaign an opportunistic farce to lure voters to his bid for a second term in the office- or a genuine mission guided by a political will unseen in his predecessors? Public opinion seems to be mixed, not unsurprisingly in the partisan politics in the country and also due to the […]
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The European Union & the like minded countries call on Sri Lanka to maintain its moratorium on the death penalty.
The Delegation of the European Union (EU) issues the following statement in agreement with the Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania and the UK High Commission, the Embassies of Norway and Switzerland, as well as the High Commissions of Canada and Australia. The Government of Sri Lanka has recently taken measures towards resuming executions […]
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LfD urges President Sirisena not to give into the temptation of implement populist moves that in reality, achieve nothing.
Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) notes, with grave concern that President Maithripala Sirisena plans to execute at least 13 death row prisoners. By lifting a 43-year moratorium on the death penalty, the President will do great damage to Sri Lanka’s human rights leadership in the region, its compliance with its international obligations and reputation. This arbitrary […]
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Sri Lanka Should Think Twice Before Copying Duterte’s Vicious Drug War
Image: Filipino men place their hands over their heads as they are rounded up during a police operation on October 7, 2016. Photo credit: © Aaron Favila/AP Photo. July 26, 2018 /Giada Girelli. This summer, Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, defiantly announced that he could end the country’s 42-year moratorium on the death penalty and sign off […]
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Sri Lanka: The death penalty is a cruel and irreversible punishment
(11 July 2018) Sri Lanka must pull back from any plans to implement the death penalty and preserve its longstanding positive record on shunning this cruel and irreversible punishment, Amnesty International said today. The Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Srisena, is reportedly pressing ahead with plans to execute 19 death row prisoners convicted of drug-related offences. “By […]
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Abolish Death Penalty – Sri Lanka HRC Tells the Government
His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo 1 Your Excellency, RECOMMENDATION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALW IN SRI LANKA We extend to Your Excellency our warm wishes for the New Year. We take this opportunity, on this auspicious day, to recommend the abolition of the death […]
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Sri Lanka will Vote in Favor of UN Resolution for Moratorium on Death Penalty – Justice Minister
Oct 07, Colombo: Sri Lanka will not implement the death penalty temporarily as the country has decided to vote in favor of a UN resolution for moratorium on death penalty in 2015, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said in parliament yesterday. The Minister noted that Sri Lanka had voted in favor of the UN resolutions […]
