Highest energy demand recorded in Sri Lanka

HRW says Zeid’s report on Lanka gives different picture

Human Rights Watch says the report on Sri Lanka by the?United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights?Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein?paints a picture that is in stark contrast to the rosy claims of the Sri Lankan Government. Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein decried Sri Lanka?s slow progress on its reform pledges in his report to the UN Human Rights Counci. High Commissioner Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein acknowledged certain positive developments, but said that the government failed to adopt a time-bound ?comprehensive

04 Mar, 2017

Journalists, media group file police complaints on each other

A group of journalists and a media organisation linked to a top Government politician have filed police complaints against each other. The?journalists attached to the Irudina newspaper filed the complaint at the Mount Lavinia police station alleging they had been arbitrarily locked out of office. The management of the Irudina newspaper filed a complaint at the Mount Lavinia police station saying the journalists had threatened other journalists at the newspaper. The issue arose after the Edito

03 Mar, 2017

Five police officers arrested over alleged extrajudicial killing

Five police officers, including an Officer in Charge (OIC) were arrested today over the death of a suspect in police custody in April 2012. Nimal Chandrasiri Dahanayke (42), a fisherman of Thalpitiya, Wadduwa, died while in the custody of the Wadduwa Police. According to the information that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had received at the time, Chandrasiri Dasanayaka of Thalpitiya, Wadduwa was illegally arrested by the police officers attached to the Wadduwa Police Station and lat

03 Mar, 2017