Cabinet had given approve to amend provision of the Penal Code relating to rape. The relevant legal provisions are under statutory rape. In the Section 363 of the Penal Code defines rape as a serious crime, and the government says that the Penal Code also included specific offenses under that crime. Further, research done by …
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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 prison board member of the Sri Lanka Film Corporation, a political prisoner at the New …
Devadasan, a political prisoner, has stop his food strike. Read More »
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 budget proposals. Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Labor, Jeevan Thondaman, Minister of State, Wadiwel …
Estate worker’s wage struggle postponed for another week… Read More »
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 and died. However, the situation has now reached a critical level. The number of suspects …
Suspect death toll increases during Police operations… Read More »
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 Sri Lanka Act No 21 of 1996) on 10 December 2020. – Mr. Jagath Balasuriya …
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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 its formal inception in the 1950s, the Universal Declaration has been accepted in more than …
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 problems with survival due to job loss. At the same time, they are facing the …
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 police teams and police special task force were working to control the situation The reman …
8 prisoners in Mahara Prison has been killed – Tension is still high Read More »
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 Charge of the Meetiyagoda Police Station, a Home Guard and a civilian accompanying the police …
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 social medias to intimidate users, journalists and the community by using the social media as …
Stop intimidating social media users and journalists – “Journalists for Rights” Read More »
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 be overcrowded and it will take only a few more weeks for the public to …
