- 01 November 2016
Sri Lanka confirms existence of illegal torture cells
In a damning report to the UN, Sri Lanka's top human rights body has confirmed that the country's police force maintain secret detention centers as exposed by local and international rights activists. The much feared Terrorist.............
- 27 October 2016
University dons urge Sri Lanka to dismantle all surveillance teams
Shocked by the wanton killing of two undergraduates by Sri Lanka police in the northern town of Jaffna, a group of university teachers around the country have called upon the government to dismantle all surveillance teams established during............
- 04 September 2016
Sri Lanka ‘lacks political will to establish transitional justice’
The UN chief visiting Sri Lanka’s war affected north has been told that the government lacks the political will to initiate any meaningful process for Transitional Justice. Tamil activists and organisations working in the North and East of Sri Lanka handed.......
- 30 July 2016
Sri Lanka: President urged to retry acquitted suspects in Tamil massacre
Survivors of a twenty-year-old massacre urged the president of Sri Lanka to reopen the case against accused army officers released by courts. Villagers of Kumarapuram in the eastern district..........
- 12 September 2016
UN urged to probe poisoning of former Tamil fighters
Tamil lawyers in Sri Lanka have called upon the United Nations to investigate the suspicious deaths and serious physical disabilities of Tamil Tiger rebels following their release from state custody. “The numbers of dead among the........
- 10 August 2016
Sri Lanka: ‘State officials participated in over 50 attacks against minorities’
The United Nations heard that Sri Lanka state officials in have been actively involved in action targeting religious minorities in Buddhist majority Sri Lanka. Over two hundred and seventy incidents...................
- 20 July 2016
Families of the disappeared question TNA on Office of Missing Persons
Meeting with families of the disappeared, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members of parliament and the northern provincial council admitted that they were unaware of any recommendations........
