March 28th, 2023    English News

– By Ambika Satkunanathan The good The Anti-Terrorism Bill gazetted on 22 March reproduces large parts of the draft counter-terrorism law formulated by the Yahapalana Government. The seeming protections include the affirmation of basic due process rights, i.e. being issued…

   March 24th, 2023    English News

The launch of the research report prepared by lawyer Mr. Dulan Dasanayake on the inappropriate use of the ICCPR Act in Sri Lanka was held on the 23rd of March at BMICH. For this, President’s lawyer Saliya Peiris, lawyer Namal…

   January 23rd, 2023    Sinhala News

මාතර තිහගොඩ ප්‍රදේශයේ වෙඩි වැදී දැනට අසාධ්‍ය තත්වයේ සිටින හර්ශක දේශාන් යන දරුවා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඇති නඩුව පසුගිය 20 වන දා මාතර ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් උසාවියේ දී කැදවුණි. එහි දී අගතියට පත් පාර්ශවය වෙනුවෙන් පෙනීසිටි නීතීඥ ලක්ෂාන් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා එදින ගරු මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරයාගෙන්…

   January 19th, 2023    Sinhala News

  අයිතිය උදෙසා මාධ්‍යවේදියෝ මාධ්‍ය සංවිධානය සංවිධානය කළ, ” අමතක නොකරමු” යන්න තේමාව කරගනිමින්  ඝාතනයට ලක් වූ සහ අතුරුදන් වූ ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන් සැමරීම, ඊයේ (18) කොළඹ ජාතික පුස්තකාල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. මෙම අවස්තාව සඳහා හිටපු කතානායක කරූ ජයසූරිය මහතා, කම්කරු සහ…

   March 24th, 2023    Activities

The launch of the research report prepared by lawyer Mr. Dulan Dasanayake on the inappropriate use of the ICCPR Act in Sri Lanka was held on the 23rd of March at BMICH. For this, President’s lawyer Saliya Peiris, lawyer Namal…

   February 26th, 2023    Picture Gallery

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   March 22nd, 2022    Interviews

ධර්මසේන පතිරාජගේ ‘කඩුල්ල’ ටෙලි නාට්‍යය හෝ ප්‍රසන්න විතානගේ නිර්මාණය කළ ‘ඉර මැදියම’ සිනමාපටය නරඹනු ලැබුවෝ, පීටර් ඩි අල්මේදාගේ ප්‍රතිභා සම්පන්න රංගන ඉතිහාසය ‘කූඹියෝ’ ටෙලි නාට්‍යයේ ඩඩ්ලි මල්දෙණියගේ චරිතයට වඩා දිගු අතීතයකට විහිදෙන බව දනිති. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම එහි සැබෑ මූලයන් කොටහේනේ…

   March 28th, 2023    Landmark Cases

– By Ambika Satkunanathan The good The Anti-Terrorism Bill gazetted on 22 March reproduces large parts of the draft counter-terrorism law formulated by the Yahapalana Government. The seeming protections include the affirmation of basic due process rights, i.e. being issued…

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English News

August 28th, 2021

Committee appointed to investigate over people detain under PTA

The President has appointed an Advisory Board to make recommendations and advise the President on future decisions, including the investigation, release and bail out of people on prison and detention orders in connection with terrorist activities. The Advisory Board has…

Mangala formula: From funeral to a political feast – Dulan Dasanayaka
August 26th, 2021

Mangala formula: From funeral to a political feast – Dulan Dasanayaka

Mangala is the only national level political leader in Sri Lanka who can smoke a cigar in public. After Sir John Kotelawala and SWRD Bandaranaike, Mangala was the only politician to publish photographs of smoking cigars. Mangala is a real…

August 23rd, 2021

Another suspect dies in police custody

A suspect arrested by the Matugama Police has died suddenly. The deceased has been identified as Vidanage, Bellanagama Dhanuka Saliya, (40) who lives in No. 49, Yatadola. The suspect was arrested by the Matugama Police yesterday (22) in connection with…

August 21st, 2021

07 killed in police custody over last 8 months

The police act in a very careless manner towards the suspects who are being arrested and those who are about to be arrested. The most recent example was the Sooriyawewa police chasing a motorcycle and shooting dead two men on…

Do we have a mechanism to prevent child abuse and crime? – Philip Dissanayake
July 30th, 2021

Do we have a mechanism to prevent child abuse and crime? – Philip Dissanayake

There is a lot of talk about the death of the girl who was employed as a servant in the house of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen. The media has been reporting on various investigations into the incident, and yesterday the…

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July 30th, 2021

The Complaint by a young mother of sexual harassment suffered at the Padukka Police Station.

July 20, 2021 weerasinghe          A woman raise her voice against police sexual abuse suffered at the Padukka Police station. She appeals to the President and the IGP for seeking justice. The Asian Human Rights Commission  (AHRC) has also sent an…

July 15th, 2021

One million rupees compensation for Sherman who died of police assault!

The Supreme Court today (14) has been ordered to pay one million rupees as compensation for violating fundamental rights to the petitioner Chadik Shaman (42), a resident of Ihala Bomriya, Kaduwela, who died of a police assault after being arrested…

July 12th, 2021

HRCSL launch an Investigation over Hambantota Port Police

July 2nd, 2021

Kandaketiya Judgement and Continuing Deaths in State Custody – Ruki Fernando

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…

July 2nd, 2021

“21 Years Without Justice – A sister’s long journey to seeking justice” launched today. – K. Sanjeewa.

Sri Lanka is a criminal state. This story proves it. But we have to change this situation somehow. We have to fight continously… The person who is responsible for this murder is fugitive and is still at large even after…

June 29th, 2021

Letter to the Inspector General of Police – SLCAT focuses on increasing of violence’s during the epidemic.

The Sri Lankan Collective Against Torture says that when government authorities abuse power with arbitrary enforcement of the law against marginalised people in the society and In refusing to provide security to those people caused to erode public in state…

June 18th, 2021

CID accused for working illegally.

The CID has been accused of violating the rule of law in the country. Leading prisoner rights group says the CID has acted on “non-existent provisions of the law” in seeking a detention order for a suspect remanded by a…

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