This report provides an account of the incidence of hate speech and divisive language observed by the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) in...
A group of Muslim organizations has requested Acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne to inquire into an alleged campaign against the Muslim community. The following is...
Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka
Hon. Dappula De Livera pC
Attorney- General
Attorney General's Department
Hulftsdorp Street
Colombo.
Hon. Attorney General,
The Human Rishts Commission of Sri Lanka's (HRCSL) analysis of the...
CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekera. Picture by Gayan Pushpika, DN.
Senior Superintendent of Police Shani Abeysekera, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department told the Parliament...
( ECONOMYNEXT )The senior-most police officer in the North-Western province is under investigation for attempting to cause racial hatred by planting reports of mass...
(26.04.2019/ Colombo/HRCSL) The terrifying and violent acts perpetrated on 21st April, Easter Sunday, have left all of us in deep shock and sorrow. The...
The letter signed by a set of powerful Buddhist leaders including two Mahanayakes and the Diyawadana Nilame of Dalada Maligawa, and addressed to Buddha...
Here in Sri Lanka, the response to recent communal riots was to temporarily ban social media. An extra-ordinary move indeed. We should ask ourselves...
Sri Lanka Alert: (09.30 GVA time 07 March 2018)
Anti- Muslim violence continues despite state of emergency (& curfew) in place.
State of Emergency was delayed by...
Image: Gintota ethnic clashes were fueled by fake news spread by social media.
By Jehan Perera.
The government took decisive action to put the lid on...
Image: the military presence in the North and East regions remained heavy and a culture of surveillance and intimidation and harassment in certain instances persisted,...
Sri Lanka government has taken decision to not proceed with the hate speech charges filed against extremist Buddhist monk and the leader of the Buddhist Brigade...
Image:Police said the warrant for the arrest of Galagodaatte Gnanasara relates to an accusation of insulting the Koran that dates back to April 2014, months...
Image: Sri Lanka cabinet of Ministers.
Sri Lanka Cabinet making a statement said that they are deeply concerned by the recent incidents of violence targeting places...
Image: Ambassadors and representatives of the diplomatic community visiting the Dewatagaha Mosque in the wake of attacks targetting the Muslim community.
COLOMBO, 01 June 2017 .
The...
National Peace Council.
An alarming number of attacks against Muslim religious places of worship and businesses are being reported countrywide causing economic ruin to many...
Image: 21st May 2017: A Cosmetic Shop in Elpitiya burned.
Hilmy Ahamed.
Post war Sri Lanka saw a wave of attacks targeting the Muslim community by Buddhist extremist...
Image: Mahinda Rajapaksa courtesy of FCA, Sri Lanka.
by Hilmi Ahamed.
Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe is seen as a blatant liar by the...
Issuing a statement as the Chairperson, Office for National Unity and Reconciliation, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga says that The strictest action must be taken without...
Image: BBS General Secretary Galagoda aththe Gnansara at the Sugathadasa Stadium during a rally to welcome Myanmar's hardline 969 monk Ashin Wirathu.
Radical Buddhist monks...
Image: Extremist Buddhist monks has become violent hate mongers in recent times in SriLanka.
I a letter to Inspector General of Police with copies to...
Image: Abdul Razik, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaath.
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government has moved to curb communal hate speech by arresting...
( Don Priyasad, with Sinhale mike in hand, threatening to kill Muslims standing in front of the fort railway station)
(Press release)
The Centre for Policy...
Agence France-Presse.
The UN human rights chief has launched a scathing attack on populist politicians including Donald Trump and the Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders,...
Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
Dear Secretary Pompeo:
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and activists worldwide. Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is...
