Police arrest 16 asylum seekers in Hambantota

China moves to punish Lawyers hired to help Hong Kong activists

The Chinese legal authorities have threatened to revoke the licenses of two lawyers hired to help a group of Hong Kong protesters who were arrested last year while trying to flee to Taiwan by speedboat. Ten of the activists were convicted last week by a court in the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen of illegal boundary crossing and sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven months to three years. Two other members of the group who were minors at the time of their arrest in August were returne

06 Jan, 2021

Hazara miners? slaughter

Horror has revisited the beleaguered Shia Hazara community once again. Early Sunday morning, 11 coal miners, all residents of Quetta?s Hazara Town, were barbarically slain in Balochistan?s mountainous Bolan district in an attack claimed by the militant Islamic State group. The men were apparently asleep in their mudbrick dwelling close by the mine that they worked when the assailants burst in, held them at gunpoint, and bound and blindfolded them. Then, in an orgy of bestial violence, they slit

06 Jan, 2021

Politician remanded for sexually harassing woman

A member of the Yakkalamulla Pradeshiya Sabha has been remanded on charges of sexually harassing a 27-year-old woman. Police Spokesman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said the 46-year-old suspect was remanded until 19 January after being produced before the Galle Magistrate?s Court today. The Pradeshiya Sabha member is reported to have sexually abused the woman in the Bataketiya area in Nakiyadeniya last evening. The victim has been identified as a widow and mother of three, whil

06 Jan, 2021