Youth taking selfie fall into the sea in Rumassala, two missing

Namal and Yoshitha appear before PRECIFAC and FCID

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa appeared before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC)?while his brother Yoshitha Rajapaksa appeared before the police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) today.

10 May, 2016

Lankans sent back from Australia detained by CID on return

The Government has confirmed 12 would-be migrants sent back to Colombo by Australia last week are currently in the hands of its Criminal Investigation Department (CID), ABC news Australia reported. The country’s Immigration and Emigration Department told the ABC the group Australia sent back last week are all members of the majority Sinhalese ethnicity, and insists they are all being treated properly. Yesterday Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed recent reports that a boat carrying 12

10 May, 2016

Issues faced by detainees to be discussed at Colombo conference

Sri Lanka is to host the third Asia- Pacific Regional Correctional Managers Conference from 10-13 May 2016 with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC said today. Nearly 50 senior officials from the Ministry of Prison Reforms, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Hindu Religious Affairs, the Department of Prisons and the Bureau of the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka, and from the prisons departments of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indi

09 May, 2016