The Attorney General’s Department (AG) has decided to drop the case against Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan in connection to the murder of former Parliamentarian...
Journalists Shanmugam Thavaseelan and Kanapathipillai Kumanan, correspondents for the Tamil Guardian, were attacked by timber smugglers on October 12 when the journalists duo were...
Sri Lanka has encountered a second security failure by allowing the unruly violent mobs to attack Muslim mosques and ordinary Muslim citizens particularly in...
Image : (c) S.Deshapriya.
REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENEVA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENTS.
(25 February 2019/...
(Sunday Observer 17 Feb 2019)
Right wing politicians have taken up cudgels against Navy officials testifying against senior rankers implicated in an abduction for ransom...
Image: Two businessmen ( SLM)
Two businessmen Manjula Asanka and Raseen Chinthaka from from Boossa, Galle district has been abducted b the police and they have tortured...
Image: Protest against the assault on Upali Tennakoon was held in Colombo immediately after the incident.
“I have no wish to return since the individuals...
In a letter to Ms. Hanaa Singer, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations, Sri Lanka, media organistations says that " We do not want the assurances of...
From Colombo to Giritale to Akkaraipattu, CID sleuths have pieced together the abduction of journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda on January 24, 2010 and linked it...
Image: From a protest poster of press freedom organisations, Sri Lanka during the Rajapaksa era.
19 November 2018./AI.
Responding to the transfer of Nishantha Silva, Officer-in-Charge...
The violation of the language rights following the enactment of Official Languages Act No. 33 of 1956, started the process of human rights violations of...
Image: Selvarani Sahadevan wants her son's killers brought to justice but has received little encouragement in the 11 years since he died. (Photo by Niranjani Roland/ucanews.com).
Sahadevan Niluckshan was...
The Joint Opposition (JO) has alleged that the recent arrest of former Army Chief of Staff and head of Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Maj....
Image: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at a seminar on the safety of journalists in Colombo in December 2017. Despite Sri Lanka's commitments to address impunity,...
By Mangla Samaraweera.
8 January 2018, marks the ninth anniversary of one of the most heinous crimes ever committed against Sri Lanka’s constitutionally guaranteed right...
A correspondent for the Lankadeepa newspaper has lodged a complaint at the Moratuwa Police that she was allegedly obstructed from carrying out her duties...
Image: Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera addressing the UNESCO conference (Credit: Samarawwera Face Book)
Sri Lanka Miniter Minister of Finance and Mass...
According to reliable information received by the Asian Human Rights Commission, eighteen young girls in the Dehiwala Orphanage in Colombo District have been sexually...
Image: In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 photo, Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of disappeared journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, turns pages of their wedding album while speaking...
By Mangala Samaraweera.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera says that " Today Sri Lanka has a choice between impunity, conflict, corruption, extremism and poverty,...
Image: Ranil Wickremesinghe and Malik Samarawickrama; Daily FT photo.
Ravi Ladduwahetty.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...
Image: Outspoken journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge (L) who predicted his own murdear is the highest profile victim of press violations in Sri Lanka, while justice...
(Shooting together at impunity)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara.
In the myth, hero-king becomes a tyrant when he turns his back on the source of his power. In...
Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday made a historic order holding that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) does not suspend the application of the...
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 40/1 which requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
Image: The High Commissioner is particularly troubled the appointments of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, as Army Chief and Major General (retired) Kamal Gunaratne, as...
ON the 11th year of Prageeth Ekneligoda abduction and disappearance Sandaya Ekneligoda launched a new initiative launching Ekneligoda Forum and https://ekneligodaforum.org/.
Ekneligoda Forum is a...
