- 28 October 2026
Court urged to reject latest expert report on Sri Lanka’s largest mass grave
Tamil victims of enforced disappearances challenging an expert report on the findings at Sri Lanka’s largest recorded mass grave have appealed court to reject the ‘disputed..............
- 25 December 2025
Police aggression on Tamils protesting illegal Buddhist temple condemned
Jaffna University students on Monday (22) staged a protest rally vehemently condemning the police aggression on local government councillors who protested the illegal construction of Buddhist......
- 28 November 2022
Sri Lanka: Tamils brave military intimidation to observe ‘Maaveerar Naal’
Come November, the Sri Lankan Military establishment and Police go into extra oppressive mode and all out to ensure that Tamils are intimidated and their right to remember their kith and kin is...........
- 05 September 2022
JDS calls for tough international action against Sri Lanka government
In a report to the UN detailing continuing government crackdown on dissenters, JDS has called upon UN member states to use universal jurisdiction and targeted sanctions against Sri Lanka’s........
- 03 June 2023
Sri Lanka: police conceal identity of policeman who pulled gun at Tamil MP
Police in northern Sri Lanka declined to disclose the identity of a policeman who apparently tried to shoot at a Tamil lawmaker in a public place. The plainclothes policeman lurking......
- 07 October 2022
Sri Lanka: 'De-radicalisation' returns in new garb as 'Rehabilitation'
One year after being forced to shelve a heavily condemned regulation targeting dissent, the Sri Lankan government has now devised a new plan to legalise its ongoing crackdown.......
- 02 August 2022
Sri Lanka: A crisis, crackdown and caution
As Sri Lanka continues to reel under severe socio-economic and political crisis, the new president Ranil Wickremasinghe’s government has started to brutally crackdown on dissidents.....
