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The report noted, among other issues, an alleged increase in surveillance and intimidation of civil society.
However, the family has yet to arrive at a final decision, she said.
"... not favors to friends or blatantly cynical measures to keep trade preferences," the HRW South Asia Director said.
“I won’t have to face punishment because I have not done any wrong.”
Sri Lanka sees new political risks since its sovereign debt default
Mudalige was arrested in August 18 after a protest march held in Colombo.
The total number of people infected with COVID 19 through the Welisara Navy camp is 206, the Director-General Health Ser...
The Opposition has made an offer to the President to cooperate with him to resolve the growing crisis in the country. Th...
The Human Rights Commission has expressed deep concern about the Police warning media not to criticize officials. In a ...
With mounting issues at military camps where hundreds of personnel have been infected by the COVID 19 virus President Go...
Sri Lanka will ramp up PCR testing for COVID 19 up to 3,000 persons per day as the total number of patients confirmed wi...
Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa and five other party leaders are urging President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to rescind t...
Sri Lanka is trying to negotiate an extension of an amnesty being given to Sri Lankan workers in Kuwait who have lost th...
- All Departments, Corporations, Private companies, retailers must open on May 4 at 10 am - Only one-third of staff to ...
A group of leading Buddhist Monks are endorsing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decision not to reconvene the recently ...
Acknowledging the need to conduct thorough investigations into any alleged offence, a collective of academics, lawyers, ...
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Constitutional experts are saying that because the President is accountable to Parliament it is vital that the House be ...
The Constitutional Council is to meet tomorrow at the residence of former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to primarily discuss t...
Sajith Premadasa is saying that the Director-General of Health Services must issue a public guarantee that it will be sa...
A group of renowned educators and school administrators is urging the government to refrain from re-opening schools on M...
An Army of volunteers and donors from Sri Lanka and overseas are helping the needy, mainly daily wage earners, in all pa...
Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is warning the government that creating a constitutional crisis at this time would danger...
Sex-workers, homeless and migrant workers without a fixed abode are increasingly at risk of contracting COVID 19 and are...
Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church is ready to “spiritually forgive” the plotters and the perpetrators of last year...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has a tough task ahead as he has to choose between holding elections on time at the end of ...
Sri Lanka is facing international pressure to safeguard the rights of religious minorities in battling the COVID 19 thre...
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