Image: The Voice of Spring is an underground newspaper of the resistance.
Journalists in Myanmar are being hunted and arrested by the country’s military for...
Proponents of militarisation claim the Sri Lanka military is more efficient, competent & uses public resources more prudently than SL public service. Findings of...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP).
Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide...
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...
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The government is making arrangements to appoint 18 high ranking military officers of the tri forces who have retired...
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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...
Journalists are being targeted, news outlets threatened, bullets fired, curfews imposed and internet blocked by a military junta intent on silencing dissent against stolen...
Image: President Mahinda Rajapaksa was welcomed by Senior General Than Shwe, ruler of the Myanmar in June 2009.
The Burma (now Myanmar) was a British...
Image: the Permanent Representative Mohan Peiris quite brazenly equates the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), victims groups and human rights...
Issuing a statement on the 73rd Independence Day, Colombo based advocacy Think Tank Centre for Policy Alternatives states that "If the government is unwilling...
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had instructed the formation of a special unit of retired military personnel to check all prison officers who...
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The findings of the National Study of Prisons undertaken by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka have been discussed...
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...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
The Prisons Department has called for applications to recruit 200 male Prison Guards from those who have retired from the defence services after completing...
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Opposition law Harin Fernando In a letter to IGP C.D. Wickremeratne has requested immediate protection after president Rajapaksa made a remark that...
The project of President Gotabaya seems to be the conversion of Sri Lanka from an uninterrupted, long-standing democracy and open society, into a second...
Image caption: Sri Lanka’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was elected last year on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock/TG.
The country insists all people who...
GR’s strategy of containing the political damage caused by his failure to win the economic war by winning the parallel war fought against minorities...
Major General (Retired) Jagath Alwis has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security.
The Esquire Chief of the National Intelligence Service...
Attorney-at-law Senaka Perera says that the death of persons taken into custody by the police cannot be justified under any circumstances.
Activist Perera questioned the...
People’s Rights Group (PRG), a rights based advocacy and lobbying group based in the UK particularly dealing with human rights violations in Sri Lanka...
Sri Lanka: Constitutional amendment a blow to human rights; rights groups call for a special review of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission
(Bangkok/Geneva, 11...
