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...
(12 April 2021)- State Minister Dilum Amunugama said today that the people voted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power expecting him to play the part...
Image: True friends of the Cardinal Ranjith.
When the head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church asks in entirely inappropriate language as to whether Maithripala Sirisena,...
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: Aleksei Navalny.
Many of us have asked why the Russian political dissenter, Aleksei Navalny, decided to return to Russia from Germany on January 17th,...
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...
Image: SriLankan policeman jumping on a lorry driver after assaulting him in broad daylight.
“Police officer” refers mostly to persons working for the Sri Lanka...
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,...
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...
File photo: A protest by diaspora Tamils.
The government of Sri Lanka has amended the list of designated persons published in the Gazette Extraordinary No.1992/25...
Image courtesy of CPJ.
Pegasus is a spyware created for mobile devices which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station. Researchers have documented it...
New 50 pound note, featuring late mathematician Alan Turing in this 2020 illustration Bank of England/Handout via REUTERS/Illustration.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England...
Image: Courtesy of Civil Disobedience Movement.
Journalists in Myanmar face worsening conditions as military crackdowns and violence is compelling many to flee, writes Phil Thornton.
Freelance...
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...