COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to consider petitions filed by opposition parties and civil groups seeking to...
Image: Western Province DIG Deshabandu Tennekoon says Police are looking for temporary residents.
ECONOMYNEXT – Questions are being raised over a door-to-door survey being conducted...
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President Rajapaksa dissolved the Parliament on 2nd March 2020– six months before the due date, amidst the growing danger of COVID-19 pandemic. By this...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has brought six institutions under the Ministry of Defence issuing an extraordinary gazette on 22 May 2020.
Sri Lanka does not have...
There has been a very useful discussion in the public domain about the relationship between the three organs of government, especially in the present...
PARL Statement on recent developments in Pottuvil Muhudu Maha Viharaya: Misuse of land acquisition laws and the military.
The People’s Alliance for Right to Land...
ECONOMYNEXT – Three minors, all students of the Al-Zuhairiya Arabic School in Karaitivu have filed Fundamental Rights petitions before the Supreme Court alleging that...
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Statement from Family of Hejaaz Hizbullah, Attorney at Law.
We have been greatly disturbed by a vile and vicious media campaign...
Even as petitions are collected and hands are rightfully wrung for redress regarding the arrest and detention of attorney Hejaaz Hisbullah, it is timely...
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The doctrine of necessity was first expounded in the 13th century by English jurist Bracton, who stated ‘that which is otherwise not...
Image: Hijaaz Hizbulla, November 2018 at a protest against President Sirisena's constitutional coup.
On 16 April, I heard that my former classmate Hejaaz Hisbullah had...
The arrest and detention of attorney at law Hejaaz Hisbullah purportedly in connection with investigations relating to the Easter Sunday bombings of April 21,...
Seven opposition party leaders have issued a joint statement assuring Responsible cooperation in Parliament in order to face the challenge of COVID-19 effectively. They...
Image: This Doctrine has very bad precedents. In 1954 Pakistan, the Chief Justice at the time validated the extra constitutional use of emergency powers...
Image: Pro Rajapaksa parliament members attacking the speaker.(File photo courtesy of NYT)
Arguing that under present circumstances, the course of action most consistent with the Constitution...
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Statement on the Arrest and Detention of Attorney-at-law Hejaaz Hizbullah.
We are writing with deep concern about aspects of the arrest and...
Sri Lanka: ICJ raises concerns about the arbitrary arrest and detention of lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah; calls for repeal and replacement of the Prevention of...
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Testing has become the main challenge for Sri Lanka. The government has consciously erected several roadblocks to minimise testing and obfuscate the...
Parliamentary Election 2020 and date of summoning new Parliament.
I refer to the Daily Mirror article, of today’s date, on the date for summoning the new Parliament...
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On March 26, 2020, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa granted a presidential pardon and released convicted death row prisoner and mass murderer,...
Image: Pro-Democracy protestors took to street daily against the constitutional coup staged by president Sirisena in October 2018.
A short paper published by the Centre for...
Literally, this picture is worth more than a thousand words.
It shows former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda and current Defense Secretary General Kamal Gunarathne having...
It is evident that the Podu Peramuna Government led by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the new President, wants desperately to withdraw the cases filed during the...
Image: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights making concluding remarks at the ID on Sri Lanka report.
Making interventions at the interactive dialogue at...
Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
