On 2 September, the Sri Lankan government gazetted the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution Bill. The Bill reverses key aspects of the Nineteenth amendment that sought to tame...
The proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution makes several significant changes to the present Constitution, altering the dynamics of the separation of powers between...
Media Associations are paying attention with regard to the arrest of web editor Chathuranga de Silva.
Desmond Chathuranga de Silva, the editor of the lankanewsweb.org website, who...
Recently, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to amend/repeal (?) the 19th Amendment to the Constitution (hereinafter referred to as 19). The media divulged that...
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Although the immediate task of the Government is to resolve the present economic crisis and stabilise the economy, people’s expectations are...
Image from the protests against October 2018 constitutional coup in, Sri Lanka.
Media Release – Appeal – Sri Lanka General Elections 2020.
For any country to...
Image: AG Dappula De Livera, P.C.
In his letter to the "Presidential Commission of Inquiry to inquire into and obtain information in relation to the...
Image: Hejaaz Hizbullah.
By Thyagi Ruwanpathirana, Researcher at Amnesty International.
As much of the island was celebrating the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, senior lawyer and minority...
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...
Last month (May 2020) a Magistrate in Jaffna had withdrawn quarantine orders against the organizers of end of war commemorations, based on appeals by...
Image: To combat this, a critical mass of civil society must mount an apolitical challenge to the political establishment .
Governance in Sri Lanka today...
Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayaka said in open court that officers of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had attempted to show photographs of Hejaaz Hizbullah...
Executive Summary.
(INFORM) There were 72 incidents reported during this month of May, reporting more than two incidents per a day. This was a significant increase...
The Court of Appeal today issued an interim injunction order preventing the Permanent High Court Trial- at- Bar from hearing the case against Former...
Image: Under repair: The St. Anthony’s church, one of the churches attacked last year on Easter. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
Meera Srinivasan.
Lawyers and activists have...
Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of late journalist and Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, has appealed to the Police Commission to block the appointment of SSP A.R.P.J....
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has established an office of the Ombudsman at the presidential secretariat and has appointed Retired Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police...
Image: Ishini Divyanjalee One of the protesters, manhandled by Police has to be hospitalised. ( Image: LankaViews)
The killing of George Floyd, who was brutally...
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...
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...
