Right to peaceful assembly

Tamils protest in London 4th Dec 2012 Norwegian Ambassador serious concern towards university incidentsCanada is seriously concerned towards the detained studentsStudents arrest: Complaints increased to 25Regional Coordinating Officer T.Thanagaraj said, until Tuesday yesterday, 25 complaints had been recorded to the Jaffna Human Rights Commission by the relations regarding the arrest of persons by the Terrorism […]

Jaffna students walking past a destroyed building ( photo : Diplomat) Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and once the bastion of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is once again experiencing unrest.Violent clashes broke out on November 27, Martyrs’ Day for Tamil, between students of Jaffna University and Sri Lankan security […]

FUTA press statement on Jaffna university problem While  expressing  concern  about  the  recent  beating,  harassment  and  arrests  of  students  in  Jaffna, FUTA reminds the authorities of its demands made in the recent protest to keep the universities free of  political  interference.  Not  only  does  this  hinder  academic  enterprise  but  leads  to  unrest  in  our universities.  […]

Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. File photo Hundreds of Sri Lankans hit the streets on Monday to protest against a parliamentary committee that ruled the country’s Chief Justice is unfit to hold office because of unexplained wealth and misuse of power.Opposition lawmakers, lawyers and rights activists joined the protest in the capital Colombo, demanding […]

Poster demanding the release of Jaffna uni student leader   ( Vanni post) The attacks against the Jaffna university students arrest and threaten incidents which are now prevailing in the north is due to the existing military rule. Owning to this, the educational activities of the university students have got disturbed, but government had not […]

Jaffna: demonstrators demand release of arrested students The ‘Terrorist’ Investigation Department operated by the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry is engaged in fabricating a false accusation against 13 students of the University of Jaffna and a few other students in the peninsula, informed sources close to paramilitary circles in Vavuniyaa said. The TID interrogators were working […]

6th December, 2012 We the undersigned, strongly condemn the arrest of four students of the University of Jaffna (UoJ) by the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) on Thursday, November 29, 2012. While welcoming the release of Kanesamoorthy Sutharsan, a student of the Jaffna Medical Faculty on the morning of Tuesday, December 4, we condemn the continued […]

Four students were arrested on 1 December in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the police. They are being held in Vavuniya for interrogation and are at risk of torture. P. Tharshananth, Sanmugam Solaman, Kanesamoorthy Sutharsan and K. Jenemajeyamenan were arrested without warrants in Jaffna. It is not known if […]

LOCAL EUROPEAN UNION (EU) STATEMENT ON THE RULE OF LAW IN SRI LANKAThe European Union Delegation issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in Sri Lanka: “The European Union Delegation in Colombo is concerned by a number of recent developments in Sri Lanka surrounding the rule of law and individual […]

TNA MPs at the demonstration In an impressive show of solidarity on Tuesday, the TNPF-called demonstration in Jaffna condemning the attack on Jaffna university students and the arrest of student leaders by the occupying forces of Sri Lanka, was actively participated by the mainstream TNA, University Teachers Association, University Students Union, Jaffna Chamber of Commerce, […]

Laksiri Fernando November has been an eventful month, not very good omen for the Rajapaksa regime. First it was their rush for the impeachment against the Chief Justice, with much resistance emerging from the legal fraternity and the public. Then came the brutal killing of 27 inmates at the Welikada Prison; a blatant murder than […]

27th Nov Jaffna: P. Darshananth explains their right to association Stepping up their terror campaign against the Jaffna students’ society, Sri Lankan police on Saturday (01) has arrested four Jaffna University Students, including its union leader P. Darshananth and his colleague, in a midnight raid. According to media sources in Jaffna, a four-member team in […]

WATCHDOG      Every 26th[1] and 27th of November since the end of the war (2009), we hear of people in the North not being able to moan their dead, not being able to carry out peaceful assemblies, not being able to partake in religious festivals or observances in public or at home, and every […]

  NfR Sri Lanka, a net work of journalists and human rights defenders, dismayed and shocked that once again the Government of Sri Lanka has unleashed state terror on students and journalists in Jaffna in flagrant violation of peoples right to peaceful assembly, an universal right enjoyed by people in the democratic world. This is […]

Military & police  assault (Photo: Uthayan) E.Saravanpavan, MP, Jaffna November 27th is the Tamil Eelam Liberation Tigers’ Heros Day on which day people offer their commemoration to the demised  warriors.    It is customary for people to pay their respect to the deceased on such days. This salutation offered to their blood brothers, relations and parents […]

Atygalla after the black oil attack JVP breakaway faction, the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), yesterday claimed that the Jaffna police purposely delayed them when they visited the station to lodge a complaint regarding their politburo member Dimuthu Atygalle being smeared with burnt engine oil on Sunday.Dimuthu Atygalle, who is also the president of the organization […]