Image: UN SPs Morris TIDBALL-BINZ & Nils MELZER.
Committee for Protecting of Rights of Prisoners, (CPRP) the only organisation working for the rights of the...
Sri Lankan police officers assaulted two Tamil youths despite them insisting “they did not commit any crimes”.
The head of the Vavuniya Echchankulam police station...
Image: A file photo.
The Free Media movement strongly condemns the obstruction by police officers outside the court premises, to the attempt made by Chamal...
Image: Senior Deputy Inspector General Deshabandu Tennakoon visiting Lunava after killing of a fisherman by the police.
From a photojournalist being frogmarched by a suspect...
Media Release/July 11, 2020.
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the forceful obstruction, intimidation and threats made by Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa, disrupting the work of...
The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) unreservedly condemns the attack by the police on a peaceful protest in Colombo on the 9th of...
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued an opinion finding the Government of Sri Lanka to be in contravention of...
Landmark ruling raps Police over Matara schoolgirl unlawful arrest case.
Reacting to the growing abuse of power by law enforcement authorities, the Supreme Court, in...
Image: Police arrested opposition politicians including MP Namal Rajapaksa for holding a illegal demostration in Hambantota on 6th October ( credit twitter)
A case of excessive...
Images: Torture marks on Wickrama Aarachchige Nimal's body.
On 17 January, 2017, Wickrama Aarachchige Nimal, 55 years of age, a resident of No: 1/4/A, Wela Ihala,...
Issuing a statement Tamil National Alliance says it is shocked by the extent to which the draft framework curtails civil liberties, erodes judicial control...
(Kadireshan Ravishankar, AHRC photo)
by Basil Fernando.
Kadireshan Ravishankar, 34 was severely tortured by the HQI and other officers of the Hatton police station merely for...
( Some of the prisoners who were allegedly massacred at the Welikada Prison in Colombo)
By Ashanthi Warunasuriya.
The 2012 Welikada prison riot which left 27...
The police Criminal Investigations Department Tuesday arrested an Assistant Superintendent after an intense media outcry over a police attack that led to the death...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday, in Parliament, lashed out at the media, accusing them of promoting racism.
"You don’t talk big because your hands are...
( Key eye witness Sumith Prasanna's wife)
A Sri Lankan court today ordered the immediate arrest of officers and constables involved in the storming of...
Now it has come to light that police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara lied to public to cover police brutality in Embilipitiya murder case.
Police has allegedly...
Shashika Nishamani Munasinghe, the widow of Sumith Prasanna Munasinghe (29) who died after a controversial fall from a three-storey building in Embilipitiya two weeks...
When former Rugby player Wasim Thajudeen’s body was exhumed in August this year, just seven days before a crucial Parliamentary election, some sections of...
(PTI) COLOMBO: In a landmark decision, Sri Lankan police have been ordered to pay compensation for assaulting a group of students at a demonstration...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has expressed deep concern regarding the government's decision to regulate fake news on social media.
Issuing a statement...
Image courtesy of Inter Press Service.
Puyumi Fornseka.
During the first five months of this year, more than 1,200 women dialed the 24-hour hotline: 1938 seeking...
The European Union enjoys and values the broad and multifaceted relationship it has developed with Sri Lanka over the past decades. The European Union’s...
