- 06 June 2021
Sri Lanka Police use 'quarantine law' to block daily rituals in Hindu Kovil
Sri Lanka Police shut a Hindu temple and blocked its' daily rituals and arrested the priests in the war-affected Mullaitivu district on charges of violating Covid-19 restrictions. Two priests and a trustee of the...
- 05 June 2021
Sri Lanka death in detention: family rejects official version
The family of the Tamil youth, Chandran Vithushan, who died while in police custody have rejected the autopsy report. Speaking to local media amidst a sombre atmosphere the family raised many.........
- 16 May 2021
Over a dozen human rights groups demand release of detained poet Ahnaf Jazeem
International pressure is mounting on Sri Lanka to release Ahnaf Jazeem - a teacher and poet who has been kept in detention for a year under the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) for publishing....
- 12 May 2021
Sri Lanka: Young man whisked away in white van and killed in custody
Police in Sri Lanka have shot dead a twenty-five-year-old man while in custody, condemned by the country’s prisoner rights activists as an extra-judicial killing. Mabulage Dinith Melon Mabula who was........
- 03 June 2021
Tamil youth dies in overnight Police custody in Eastern Sri Lanka
In yet another shocking incident of police brutality and custodial death, a Tamil youth arrested on drug related offences had died by in Police detention. His family says that the young man was.........
- 14 May 2021
Stop Sri Lanka’s candidate getting elected to top UN legal body
JDS joins hands with the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) in a global appeal calling to stop Sri Lanka’s chief justice during the first Rajapaksa regime getting elected to a top UN body entrusted.....
- 30 April 2021
Muslim countries strongly condemn Sri Lanka’s draconian laws and HR violations
Sri Lanka continues to come under intense international condemnation for its draconian laws and gross human rights violation in spite of a resolution being passed against it in the UN Human Rights......
