GENEVA (8 August 2022) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the extensive, prolonged and repeated use of state of emergency measures since 2 April 2022 by Sri Lankan authorities to crackdown on peaceful protesters and prevent them from voicing their…
By BASIL FERNANDO Illegal arrests and illegal detentions do not only harm individuals, they also cause irreparable damage to the legal system as a whole. The recent wave of arrests of those who have participated in peaceful demonstrations has not…
On the September 17 and 18, a training workshop on digital and physical security was conducted involving representatives of selected non-governmental and civil organizations in Hambantota, Monaragala, Hatton and Kalutara districts at Camelot Beach Hotel, Negombo. In relation to physical…
On the May 7, 2014 Sandun Malinga, a 17 year old boy and four others with him were beaten by police officers, arrested and detained at the Kandaketiya police in the Badulla district. The next day, around 2.30 am, Sandun…
On the 20th of January 2008, Inspector and some officers attached to Suriyawewa Police.took four boys aged 16 years and a young man to Police custody without any reason assaulted them mercilessly with S-lon pipes and bottles , and had…
This witness, a neighbor of the deceased, was named the seventh witness of the State by the Attorney General’s Department, after he did give very valuable information about the vehicle which was suspected, involved in this murder. But after the…
