Elections to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka will be held on the 24th. Two President’s Counsels candidates have entered to the election for the post of Chairman. They are President’s Counsel Saliya Peiris and President’s Counsel Kuvera de Zoysa. …
A 19-year-old student from Dodamgaslande, Kurunegala has been remanded for four months on charges of illegally possessing heroin. The student, who was studying for the GCE Advanced Level at the Sastharachindra Pirivena College, Polgolla, was on his way to a…
Personal details of the victim The victim name is Jerad Mervin Perera, 42years old from Wattala, gampaha district of the island. He was married person and worked in the Colombo dockyard. Incident On the 14th June of 2002 Jerad Mervin…
Kanakasabey Devadasan alias Nadan, a political prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for the past 10 days, has suspended his protest for the first three weeks as promised by the prison superintendent. Kanakasabey Devadasan (age 64), a former…
Minister of Labor Mr. Nimal Siripala de Silva last decided on December 22 to give estate employers a week to make the final decision to increase the minimum daily wage of estate workers to Rs. 1,000 as per the 2021…
There are only few days to end 2020. Beginning of this year, on the 19th of January, we heard the sad news that a police officer had accidentally fired a gun at a monk who was walking down the street…
His Excellency, The Hon. President of Sri Lanka appoints the Chairperson and Members to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka under Article 41A of the Constitution of Sri Lanka (together with Sections 3 of the Human Rights Commission of…
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has written to the Director of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital regarding the bodies of the remandees from the Mahara Prison. The letter sent by the Human Rights Commission is as follow.
In 1948, every fundamental and inherent human right of all citizens with no exception to their nationality, sex and gender was set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Since…
With the Covid-19 epidemic, people in entire world are under intense pressure. Many people have to live with severe mental and physical stress due to issues such as survival from the plague, loss of loved ones, loss of income or…
Eight inmates were killed, and 43 others were injured in a riot at Mahara Prison last evening (29), Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said. He said that some incidents were reported in the prison this morning (30) and that five…
Buddhi was 14 years and a Grade 10 student at Nindana Maha Vidayalaya the time of the incident. On 7th March 2008 at 3:30pm, Buddhi was at home with his mother when four police officers including the then Officer in…
The Journalists for Rights Collective said that general public and journalists who using social media should not be arrested for an offence that can only be prevented by warning. At the same time, they urge the authorities to stop using…
Currently, 2,000 deaths and 200,000 new infections are reported in Europe in a one day, and it takes approximately ten days for these numbers to double. If this situation is not brought under control, hospitals in the worst-affected countries will…
So far 146 Sri Lankans have died due to the rapidly spreading Covid 19 epidemic around the world. Most of the deaths were from migrant Sri Lankans, with 98 reported deaths. The death toll in Sri Lanka so far is…
