The human rights environment in Sri Lanka worsened, with the continuation of surveillance and intimidation of activists and human rights defenders, the detention without...
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Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya Member of Parliament Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is accusing the government of targeting media-persons critical of the government...
Image: There is widespread concern about the militarisation of the COVID response and broader militarisation under the cover of COVID. Yet, militarisation too is...
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Sri Lanka’s covid-19 ‘dark riders’ and the urgent need to correct ourselves.
The fearsome sight of armed motorcycle riders, clad in black, complete with...
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In 2019, with no global pandemic, the Sirisena-Rajapaksa administration set aside Rs. 188 billion for health. In 2020, amidst a global...
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By Vyshnavy Velrajh.
(Colombo Gazette) Drones will be deployed to monitor movements in areas under lockdown in the country due to...
As the world commemorates 2nd November as the ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ a Sri Lankan government minister has told...
Image: A file photo of a military checkpoint in Colombo.
The proliferation of Sri Lankan military checkpoints, illegal fishing by Sinhala fishermen with the assistance...
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On 15 October, the Sri Lankan authorities imposed a curfew in parts of Katunayake Free Trade Zone (KFTZ) after hundreds of...
Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
1. On 4 October Sri Lanka’s newest Covid-19 cluster spreading within the Brandix-owned factory in Minuwangoda, Gampaha came to be known by an accident....
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Filing an application for mandates in the nature of Writ of Certiorari and/or Prohibition and/or Mandamus Under and in terms...
In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, the recently formed Civil Society Collective for the Rights of FTZ Workers has requested...
Weeping garment workers abruptly shoved into quarantine
Unions call for an immediate inquiry into factory COVID ops
Twenty-eight-year-old Kasuni is among hundreds of garment...
A Complaint has been made against Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of...
Image: Army commander and police spokesperson brief media regularly on Covid 19 situation.
The largest cluster of corona patients in the country might not have...
Image: Abducted female workers say that food given to them is not properly cooked and cannot be eaten. (screenshot from the below video)
Fifty-three FTZ...
(INFORM) This report provides some general trends and details of some significant incidents related to the repression of dissent in Sri Lanka in the...
Colombo (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police said 1402 workers were attached to the Minuwangoda Brandix Factory and all those were not moved into quarantine...
In an interview with a journalist, the Minister of Education Prof. G.L. Pieris argued that a strong executive presidency is necessary for rapid development....
Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army on Tuesday (15) presided a conference with the Chief Signal Officer,...
As public concern over Sri Lanka’s draft 20th Amendment to the Constitution increases exponentially since this amendment was gazetted on 2nd September 2020, so do the...
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) just secured a landslide victory in parliamentary polls, bringing back Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister....
The SLPP struck a chord projecting political stability and capitalising on failures of the previous coalition government.
The results of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election held...
The power to issue detention orders for suspects arrested on terrorism-related activities should be given to a Deputy Inspector of Police instead of a...
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Sri Lankan police across Batticaloa have arrested 19 people for allegedly posting birthday wishes online for Liberation...
