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Poorly worded legal provisions can be construed to cover "fake news": Sri Lanka lawyer

"Sri Lankan law has no reference to fake news"

June 9, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka police warn of extortion racket targeting Easter bombings "suspects"

“This is being carried out by criminals or and certain prison inmates"

June 9, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka president gazettes new detention centre for suspects held under PTA

The Counter Terrorism Investigation Unit premises in Kirulapone, Colombo 05, will be used as the new detention centre

June 8, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka police arrests 913 alleged lockdown violators, introduces new sticker-pass system

Police has introduced a colour-coded sticker system to control traffic during the lockdown

June 7, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka's SJB has no official position on death penalty, MPs must freely vote: Eran

“These are issues to do with conscience,” said Wickramaratne.

Sri Lanka's rising political risks amid uncertain polls, IMF deal drag 

Sri Lanka sees new political risks since its sovereign debt default

Sri Lanka refutes UN assertion that it has “clamped down” on freedom of expression over COVID 19

Sri Lanka is raising concern over a press release issued by the United Nations which alleged that the government has cla...

June 9, 2020 3 min read

Dharga town teen assault: Cops interdicted because they failed to detain autistic kid

Police headquarters is confirming that the three police officers involved in the alleged assault of an autistic teen in ...

June 8, 2020 2 min read

Opposition charges the government wants to set up surveillance systems to threaten critics

The opposition is accusing the government of collecting personal data that can be used to threaten or intimidate citizen...

June 8, 2020 3 min read

Police say officers “used necessary force” on autistic teenager and did not assault him

The Police department is denying that its officers assaulted autistic teenager Thariq Ahamed at Dharga Town during curfe...

June 5, 2020 3 min read

Data collection by Cops and unknown civilians - CMEV writes to Act IGP

An election watchdog is raising questions as to why the Police are collecting data from households across the Colombo di...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 5, 2020 2 min read

US Riots Show That Double Standards Rankle - Jehan Perera

Unrest and rioting in cities throughout the United States, the world’s largest economy and one of its richest, have be...

Dr. Jehan Perera - Executive Director National Peace Council
June 2, 2020 6 min read

Supreme Court dismisses FR petitions challenging the refusal to recall Parliament

The Supreme Court has refused leave to proceed for all 8 Fundamental Rights petitions that challenged the June 20 poll d...

June 2, 2020 1 min read

President wants drug kingpins operating behind prison walls curbed

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants to put a stop to criminal activities operated by underworld kingpins from within pris...

June 2, 2020 1 min read

Residents complain SLPP activists accompanied by police collecting personal data?

Questions are being raised over a door-to-door survey being conducted by Police in the City of Colombo and its suburbs o...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 2, 2020 2 min read

Uproar over crowds at Thondaman's funeral and Jeevan's behaviour

The Funeral of the late Minister Arumugam Thondaman held over the weekend is raising many questions about the quarantine...

Imesh Ranasinghe
June 1, 2020 3 min read
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Maligawatte fatal stampede: Police were aware of the event taking place - Counsel

The businessman and seven others who allegedly were involved in the distribution of cash gifts prior to Ramadan where th...

May 29, 2020 2 min read

Justice for Easter Sunday and Justice for Hejaaz: A Christian perspective

There must be justice for Easter Sunday, but there must also be justice for Hejaaz and others subjected to arbitrary arr...

Ruki Fernando
May 24, 2020 8 min read
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Mujibur - Maligawatte tragedy happened because of poverty

The deaths of three elderly women caused by a stampede during an aid distribution event on Thursday in Colombo central i...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 23, 2020 3 min read
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President will withdraw Sri Lanka from International Organisations which seek to discredit War Veter...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has vowed he will not permit officers and other ranks who fought in the separatist war to b...

May 20, 2020 2 min read

Counsel Corea - "President and the Cabinet are constitutionally responsible to the Parliament"

Holding Parliamentary General Elections at this time when the COVID 19 pandemic is claiming victims is dangerous and “...

May 19, 2020 6 min read
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Letter warning of imminent terror attack is fake - Police Media spokesman

Sri Lanka Police department media spokesman is saying a letter circulating in the social media warning of an imminent te...

May 19, 2020 1 min read

Sumanthiran tells the Supreme Court - “A country without Parliament is not a democracy”

Hearings into the Fundamental Rights applications challenging the date of the elections and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...

May 18, 2020 3 min read

Mangala being investigated over transport given to displaced voters

Two leading members of the United National Party-led former government were grabbed by the long arm of the Law yesterday...

May 15, 2020 3 min read

All day countrywide curfew on Sunday

The government has declared an island-wide, all-day curfew on Sunday, May 17, the Presidential Secretariat announced thi...

May 14, 2020 1 min read

Three children allege "CID Officers" tried to coerce them to implicate madrassah in arms training

Three minors, all students of the Al-Zuhairiya Arabic School in Karaitivu have filed Fundamental Rights petitions before...

May 13, 2020 2 min read