Sri Lanka Brief Presidential Election Update No 02.
Polarised vote
The president elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa (GR) of SLPP and Sajith Premadasa (SP) of NDF respectively received...
Parliamentary General Election 2015: Media Communiqué 07
by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)
10th August 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Below is a summary of the major...
(After the shooting, Lankadeepa photo)
At 11.30 am today (31 July 2015), shooting was reported at Bloemendal Road in front of the St. Benedict College...
by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)
January 2015 CMEV continued to monitor the post election situation and note several incidents reported in the period...
Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2015 Interim Statement - Commonwealth Observer Group
Statement by: Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group
The Commonwealth Observer Group...
CaFFE Election Report # 58
Campaign for Free and Fair Election (CaFFE) is dismayed by the increasing violence as election day approached and the lukewarm...
Jan 02, Colombo: An election rally of the common opposition candidate held today in Pelmadulla in Ratnapura district had come under attack from ruling...
CaFFE Election Report # 52.
Violence increase – Underhand tactics proliferate
Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) has received 863 election related complaints by December...
Presidential Election 2015: Media Communique 7/by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)
27th December, Public Property Misuse in Kantalai, Trincomalee District
CMEV was reported of an...
On the day governing party goons attacked a opposition group including former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga the police had instructed the Out Patient Department...
(Ex-LTTE members touring south] Image- MoD)
The occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka has forced around 4,000 former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
Around 8.30 PM today (25th) an armed gang has arrived at the Member of Parliament Mangala Samaraweera’s office in Hakmanaa, Matara district and destroyed...
An armed group has attacked a Common Candidate’s office in Eravur in the Battticaloa district.
Over twenty armed men arrived at the office at 12:30am...
A street protest involving Opposition members and activists has been attacked in Hambantota this morning, opposition sources told Asian Mirror.
The attack has allegedly been...
Only Law Can Prevent Certain Election Law Violations – Mahinda Deshapriya
As the tension grows between the opposition common candidate and President Mahinda Rajapaksa,...
Treasurer of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Upul Deshapriya, Attorney-at-Law and a few other officers bearers of the BASL, yesterday filed a Writ...
Bishop Norbert Andradi of Anuradhapura has expressed the private opinion that the tense period following the release of Presidential election results is not a...
by Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu-
The announcement that Maithripala Sirisena, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and Minister of Health in the Rajapaksa regime...
Sri Lanka's elections chief warned state-run television networks on Friday not to broadcast programmes supporting President Mahinda Rajapakse in upcoming polls.
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya...
CaFFE Election Report 23 -
Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) has received a number of incidents on election related violence, the day before...
By Nirmala Kannangara -
More election violence and violations are reported from all parts of the country where the ruling UPFA government is accused for...
A group of thugs led by Government politicians has attacked the campaign of the ‘Viyaruwata Erihiwa ; Jeewithya Wenuwen - ‘වියරැවට එරෙහිව, ජීවිතය වෙනුවෙන්...
Election campaign of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the upcoming Uva Provincial Election is being targeted by the pro government gangs in an...
Additional Mahiyangana Magistrate Gamini Rambakenpura yesterday released, on surety bail of Rs. 100,000 each, UPFA MP for Badulla, Thenuka Vidanagama and his brother...
Al Jazeera television has been temporarily blocked in Sri Lanka over its election coverage today.Dialog Television is the main re-broadcaster of Al Jazeera television...
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...
