Sri Lanka's recently passed Emergency Regulations, are giving police and military officers unprecedented powers to arrest and detain LGBT+ people, right activists said.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva has called for the formation of either an all-party or a multi-party government for a limited period in order for the building of a new country.
A group of Women’s rights activists has unequivocally condemned the declaration of emergency by the present government and the repression of protesters by labelling them as drug addicts, fascists, terrorists, and extremists among others.
While condemning the ongoing crackdown on the protestors, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has assured support for the all-party government (APC) proposed by the president.
A commemoration has taken place for more than 60 people, including infants and women, who were brutally massacred in Point Pedro, Jaffna by the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) 33 years ago.
The Black Cap Movement (BCM), one of the parties to the ongoing struggle since its inception, has decided to leave the protest site at Galle Face in Colombo.
A police team in civilian clothing visited the media office of Xposure News and inquired about several of its journalists yesterday afternoon (27), said the Digital Journalists’ Collective (DJC).
The Supreme Court today (28) named former president Gotabaya Rajapkasa a respondent in fundamental rights petitions that seek an order for an investigation against the persons responsible for making the country and its people bankrupt.
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) will wipe out from politics the MPs who would raise their hands to repress the people, warned its education secretary Pubudu Jayagoda yesterday (27).
"Opaque" loans for “headline-grabbing” infrastructure projects, were among the factors behind the current crisis that has engulfed Sri Lanka, said Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Wednesday.
