Death threats

Former MP Sajin Vaas Gunawardena today said he had lodged a police complaint saying that Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa had told another SLPP MP that Sajin and his family will be killed if he continued to support the New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa in the presidential election. Speaking at a media briefing, […]

Image: Ali Sabry and Gotabaya. A video clip doing the rounds on social media, purportedly of President’s Counsel Mohamad Ali Sabry making a controversial remark regarding the Muslim vote in the upcoming presidential election, has drawn the ire of the United National Party (UNP). UNP parliamentarian S. M. Marikkar accused the senior lawyer today of […]

We, the undersigned concerned about democracy, justice and rule of law in Sri Lanka, are alarmed at the threats made against two senior civil society activists for filing an application in the Court of Appeal (CA) challenging the validity of the dual citisenship declaration belonging to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Presidential aspirant and former Secretary, Ministry of […]

Professor Chandragupta Thenuwara who was among two petitioners who challenged Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s citizenship status is facing numerous threats By Arjuna Ranawana. Gotabaya Rajapaksa walks out of the Special High Court in Hulftsdorp surrounded by bodyguards/RepublicNext Professor Chandragupta Thenuwara is facing death threats from various persons backing the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, […]

Image:M.P. Vijayakala Maheswaran. A journalist from Kilinochchi has complained to police that he received death threats after reporting on the recent statement made by State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran glorifying the slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. A freelance journalist, S.N. Nibojan, filed this complaint on December 31 at Kilinochchi police. The journalist said that he was […]

Police have initiated an investigation after live ammunition was recovered from a weapon of a cadet at the Gampaha Bandaranayake Vidyalaya today right before President Maithripala Sirisena was scheduled to be the Chief Guest at the school’s prize giving. The police media unit stated that the live bullet was discovered during the routine security check […]

( Editorial, Ceylon Daily News) A UPFA Minister of the Southern Provincial Council has threatened to stone police FCID officers to death according to a news item we carried in our front page yesterday. This worthy who hails from the Rajapaksa fiefdom in the Deep South had apparently taken umbrage at the temerity of the […]

UPFA Southern Provincial Council Minister D.V. Upul, addressing a public meeting, threatened to stone the officers attached to the Police FCID to death. He vowed to do so when Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes the Prime Minister again. The Provincial Council Minister made this remark in the presence of UPFA Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa and several other local […]

[Aluthgama anti Muslim riot was initiated by BBS] Quoting unnamed police sources BBC Sinhala service reports that Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) V.Indran, who had refused to release the 13 suspects arrested over the Aluthgama clash, is facing serious threats to his life. DIG V. Indran who was in in-charge of Kalutara and Panadura […]

University invaded ‘Names of dons who spoke against Deyata Kirula at Senate meeting were leaked to thugs’The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) yesterday asked the government to stop harassing its members following a recent goon attack on the Ruhuna University students or face a countrywide strike. Addressing a media conference at the Faculty Club […]

Thugs led by MP Jayasuriya University teachers question as to whether S.B. Dissanayake is the minister in charge of higher education, or if not livestock or terrorism affairs.Their association FUTA, at a media briefing in Colombo today (06), charged the government of being behind death threats received by lecturers of Ruhunu University after they condemned […]

Fr S.S. Johnpillai Pointing their gun at the parish priest of Our Lady of Gaudalupe church, unidentified persons who came in motorbike that had no number plate, issued death threat to Fr. S.S. Johnpillai in Trincomalee city. The incident took place around 9:00 p.m. on 26 November. The gunmen blamed that the priest was praying […]

Weliamuna a leading pro democracy lawyer under death threats  Lawyers get threatening letter Death threats for Weliamuna- UNPWeliamuna senior Lawyer targeted for murder : MaRa plot leaks out   Lawyers get threatening letters Attorney-at-law Dr. Jayampathi Wickramarathne PC, J.C. Weliamuna and M.A. Sumanthiran had received threatening letters, Human rights lawyer, J.C. Weliamuna said today. Accordingly […]