Kotte Municipal Council member and brother arrested

Sri Lanka repatriates five Chinese women

The Sri Lanka Immigration and Emmigration Department on Thursday deported two Chinese nationals who were amongst the seven Chinese women arrested recently for violating the country’s visa regulation. Immigration and Emmigration Controller General Chulananda Perera told Xinhua that while two Chinese girls were removed from the country on Thursday morning, another three are scheduled to be returned home late Thursday. Chulananda said that investigation into the remaining two girls are continuing.

28 Mar, 2013

Court orders release of ship

The Colombo Magistrate today ordered the release of a Vietnamese ship which was detained following a petition filed by Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC). The Magistrate ordered the release of the ship after the insurance company had given a bond to court. The Colombo High Court ordered the detention of ‘Vina Lion’s Glory’ which had caused a loss of USD 2.5 million to the Indian Oil Company’s Lanka entity. The LIOC claimed that the 4500 MT of oil had complied with the necessary quality standard

28 Mar, 2013

HRW calls for probe on Karuna

The Sri Lankan government should act on the call by a government deputy minister to investigate war crimes by examining his own role in serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. In early March 2013, Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, known as Col. Karuna, called for war crimes investigations into the Tamil National Alliance, an opposition coalition of ethnic Tamil political parties, presumably because some members had links to the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LT

28 Mar, 2013