Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued banning 11 Muslim organisations in Sri Lanka, including the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda.
The text of...
A crackdown on dissenting voices — those denouncing Islamophobia and criticizing the government — has Sri Lanka’s Muslims afraid to speak out.
By Tasnim Nazeer.
Since Sri...
Image: Activist and journalist Malika Abeykoon.
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the arrest and assault of Malika
Abeykoon, a freelance journalist and photographer, considering it...
The Mayor of Jaffna, Viswalingam Manivannan was arrested by Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) at around 2.30am on Friday morning.
Manivannan, who is also...
Image: Protest in front of Maradana police station calling for the release of journalist Malika Abeykoon ( LankaViews)
On 2 April 2021 Sri Lanka Health...
Image: Journalists; protest in Batticaloa (JDS)
Sri Lanka has increased its crackdown and intimidation of the Tamil media soon after the UN Human Rights Council...
Under a directive from the Presidential Secretariat, the government has decided to suspend all state advertisements on 'Sirasa' media network with immediate effect.
President Rajapaksa...
The Election Commission (EC) has decided not to register political parties whose names have a reference to ethnicity or religion as, accoding to it,...
The University of Colombo (UoC) has issued guidelines for students to follow when using social media platforms, including forbidding students from criticising the university.
These...
Image: Managala Samaraweera at UNHRC .2016.
Sri Lanka has voluntarily become a signatory to all human rights conventions passed at the UN over the years...
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), its constituents and affiliated organisations met Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella on Monday to submit a proposal for a...
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Pegasus is a spyware created for mobile devices which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station. Researchers have documented it...
Sri Lankan journalist Sujeewa Gamage, who was arrested by police for allegedly making 'false claims’ about his own abduction, was granted bail on March...
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Journalists in Myanmar face worsening conditions as military crackdowns and violence is compelling many to flee, writes Phil Thornton.
Freelance...
The statement made by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa regarding the media, while participating in a “Discussion with the village” programme held on March 20 in...
Image: Lakshman Gunasekara
In a strange tune of events, Sri Lanka chapter of Pakistan based the South Asian Free Media Association which includes well-known Sri...
A file photo.
Sanjaya Wilson Jayasekera.
In a communication to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) on behalf of poet Ahnaf Jazeem, lawyers complain...
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The country is facing difficult challenges due to internal and external pressures which is increasing the level of frustration within society. ...
Lawyers for poet Ahnaf Jazeem have complained to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) about TID officers listening and audio-recording the conversation between...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
