Image: Pham Doan Trang, a Vietnamese dissident, was arrested on charges of making and disseminating propaganda against the Vietnamese state.(Credit-Thinh Nguyen)
By Richard C. Paddock.
BANGKOK...
Shrinking space for human rights voices and dissent, and concerns over the terms of engagement between government and civil society
A statement by concerned...
(File photo: Student of a police attack)
Several students were injured and three others had to be hospitalized due to police baton charging and attacking...
Summary:
Incidents related to repression of dissent continued to be reported under the Sirisena Presidency, despite a general feeling of having more freedom than under...
Responding to Democratic Left Front (DLF) leader Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri yesterday said that Mr. Nanayakkara’s assessment that the May Day attack...
Undergraduates of six State Universities will conduct protests and marches at noon today (06) calling for the release of the two student activists who...
(Brito Fernando)
Sri Lankan authorities must hold to account those who threatened three prominent activists with death today and ensure that tomorrow’s presidential elections passes...
The Sri Lankan military has blocked youth from across the North-East from attending a conference for the ‘Association of Friendship and Love’ (AFRIEL) organised...
INFORM, a long standing human rights documentation centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka in has recorded 26incidents of suppression of dissent in Sri Lanka. the...
The harassment of senior Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) members by the governing party has commenced with the party’s chairman, MP Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero.
The...
By INFORM-
September was a month that saw almost daily incidents of repression of dissent. A commemoration planned for a well-known woman human rights defender...
The Fort District Court (1) issued an injunction order yesterday that the Railway Professional Trade Union Alliance (PTUA) stop its strike. A group of...
Water cannons were used against a student protest against the opening of a sub-standard hostel by the Higher Education Minister in the University of...
The Sri Lankan Police in Jaffna arrested the General Secretary of Mutpoakkuth Thamizh Theasiya Kadchi (MTTK) Sutharsingh Vijayakanth and two of his fellow party...
Summary:
August 30th is the International Day of victims of Enforced Disappearances, but in Sri Lanka, it was a month when families of disappeared persons...
Revisiting a Tamil democrat’s legacy
By Meera Srinivasan
Best known for the book The Broken Palmyra, she had predicted the demise of LTTE
In September...
By SLB--
Two Uni students arrested
Arrest of two Tamil students of Sabaragamuwa University by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) remained a serious concern among...
Civil society recalls President’s days as disappearances campaigner.
Activists reject monks’ version of events at Centre for Society and Religion.
Nimalka wants President to stop sending...
By Edward Mortimer--
The government has been trying its best to silence the country's remaining Tamils without drawing the world's attention
With all the horrors taking...
Susila Herath, a school teacher of Navagattegama Navodya Vidyalaya who won a lawsuit against ex-PC member Ananda Sarath Kumara (UPFA), has received a death...
Following the intimidation given to Tamil speaking students by posters which mentioning the names of Tamil and Muslim first year students, calling for them...
A remote island has been chosen by Sri Lanka's government for the burial of Covid-19 victims from the minority Muslim and Christian communities.
The government...
