Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
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...
An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued banning 11 Muslim organisations in Sri Lanka, including the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda.
The text of...
(12 April 2021)- State Minister Dilum Amunugama said today that the people voted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power expecting him to play the part...
Image: True friends of the Cardinal Ranjith.
When the head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church asks in entirely inappropriate language as to whether Maithripala Sirisena,...
Ambika Satkunanathan, former commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court yesterday...
A crackdown on dissenting voices — those denouncing Islamophobia and criticizing the government — has Sri Lanka’s Muslims afraid to speak out.
By Tasnim Nazeer.
Since Sri...
Image: Activist and journalist Malika Abeykoon.
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the arrest and assault of Malika
Abeykoon, a freelance journalist and photographer, considering it...
The Mayor of Jaffna, Viswalingam Manivannan was arrested by Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) at around 2.30am on Friday morning.
Manivannan, who is also...
Image: SriLankan policeman jumping on a lorry driver after assaulting him in broad daylight.
“Police officer” refers mostly to persons working for the Sri Lanka...
Image: Protest in front of Maradana police station calling for the release of journalist Malika Abeykoon ( LankaViews)
On 2 April 2021 Sri Lanka Health...
Image: Journalists; protest in Batticaloa (JDS)
Sri Lanka has increased its crackdown and intimidation of the Tamil media soon after the UN Human Rights Council...
Under a directive from the Presidential Secretariat, the government has decided to suspend all state advertisements on 'Sirasa' media network with immediate effect.
President Rajapaksa...
Image courtesy of New York Times.
The government is making arrangements to appoint 18 high ranking military officers of the tri forces who have retired...
The Election Commission (EC) has decided not to register political parties whose names have a reference to ethnicity or religion as, accoding to it,...
The University of Colombo (UoC) has issued guidelines for students to follow when using social media platforms, including forbidding students from criticising the university.
These...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
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...