The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that it had obtained a detention order from the Defence Ministry to interrogate...
A ‘slip of the tongue’ and a celluloid crusader’s unfortunate downfall
Confusion has been worse confounded in the public mind following the conviction this week...
Kamanthi Wickramasinghe.
As Ahnaf Jazeem languishes in detention for writing poems that were said to have advocated peace and harmony, many academics and human rights...
Image: Police baricades Jaffna University after demolising the memorial for war dead. ( Photo- Pragas Gnanapragasam tweeter)
In yet another act of systematic racism and...
Image: Harin Fernando.
Opposition law Harin Fernando In a letter to IGP C.D. Wickremeratne has requested immediate protection after president Rajapaksa made a remark that...
The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP—acting on behalf of Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of acclaimed Sri Lankan journalist...
Image:Journalist Bismillah Adil Aimaq. Credit: The Bharat Express.
Bismillah Adil Aimaq, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist was killed by unidentified gunmen in Dara-e-Taimoor...
The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses their grave concern over the tendency to indiscriminately block and impede the right to freedom of expression on...
Ahnaf Jazeem, a 25-year-old Sri Lankan poet, remains in jail without charge after being falsely accused, by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on May...
Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by unknown assailants...
Speaking on 'Evaluation of the Role of Armed Forces and Ensuring National Security, Abreast with Contemporary Security Challenges', Sri Lanka army commander Lieutenant General...
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New guidelines have been issued for government expenditure on advertising and marketing, instructing state institutions’ top officials to give preference to...
A Tamil journalist locally known as Gokulan, affiliated with Battinews.com was arrested by the Sri Lankan Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) on November 29 for posting pictures on his...
Image: Sri Lankan soldiers and police went around neighbourhoods smashing lamps and destroying banana trees and festival decorations and threatening residents.
Sri Lankan police arrested...
Cropped photo from the original by Sindu S
Sri Lankan police across Batticaloa have arrested 19 people for allegedly posting birthday wishes online for Liberation...
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Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundara has sent a letter ordering all state institutions including state banks and insurance companies...
Sri Lankan police officers interrogated Tamil Guardian’s Batticaloa correspondent and Batticaloa Press Club (BPC) Secretary, Selvakumar Nilanthan at his home, for highlighting the military-assisted...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
