Divineguma Department to be Samurdhi Department

Why focus only on Lasantha, Prageeth asks TNA MP

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian and owner of the Northern based ‘Uthayan’ newspaper E Saravanabavan, today questioned as to why the Government is only investigating the murder of journalist Lasantha Wickremetunga and the disappearance of cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda and not the attacks on journalists in the North. Speaking in Parliament today,?Sarawanabavan said that while it is good to see the new Government investigating some of the incidents involving journalists, there must

12 Dec, 2015

UK notes de-listing of GTF, BTF in updated travel advice

The British Foreign Office has issued an updated travel advice on Sri Lanka which takes note of the de-listing of two UK based diaspora groups. The updated travel advice issued today notes that on 20 November 2015, the Sri Lankan Government published a revised list of organisations and individuals proscribed under Sri Lankan law and the list no longer includes the British Tamil Forum (BTF) or the Global Tamil Forum (GTF). The British Government had last month?welcomed the move by Sri Lanka to?

11 Dec, 2015

Malaysia urged to free activist arrested over Lankan film

Nearly 100 leading film-makers, writers, artists and lawyers from around the world have signed an open?letter calling on the Malaysian government to drop charges against a human rights activist who is due to go?on trial on Monday 14 December and could face up to three years in jail for screening a film on the war in Sri Lanka. Lena Hendry, of the Malaysian human rights NGO Pusat KOMAS, has been charged under Malaysia?s?draconian censorship laws for screening the award-winning documentary No Fir

12 Dec, 2015