Singer Amal Perera and five others deported to Sri Lanka

Snowden seeks help for Lankan family who helped him

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has made a Christmas request to his Twitter followers to help the refugee families, including a family from Sri Lanka, living in Hong Kong that sheltered him after he left the US and while he worked to expose the scope of the National Security Agency’s information-gathering, sputniknews.com reported. A fundraising effort was launched earlier this month for the individuals that helped Snowden. Their lawyer says the Hong Kong government has been retaliating against hi

26 Dec, 2016

Sumanthiran says SIS was accused of killing Raviraj

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian and senior human rights lawyer M.A. Sumanthiran says the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Attorney-General?s Department had found evidence pointing to the involvement of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) in the assassination of former Parliamentarian Nadaraja Raviraj. Additionally, the public prosecutor?s indictment accused some ?persons unknown to the prosecution? of being involved in the murder. ?So it was obvious that a few junior

26 Dec, 2016

Lankan carol service mistakenly prints Tupac’s song lyrics

A Christmas carol service in Sri Lanka mistakenly printed out the lyrics to gangster rapper Tupac’s hit song ‘Hail Mary’ on thousands of its service programmes. The unfortunate mix-up took place at the Catholic 2016 Joy to the World Festival, which was held at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre in Colombo, The Daily Mail reported. Instead of reflecting on the traditional Catholic prayer’s message of how ‘blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus’ – attendees were presented with lyrics reading: ‘I ain’t a

25 Dec, 2016