At least 41 Sri Lankan women, the majority of whom are migrant domestic workers, have spent months on end arbitrarily detained at a deportation center in Saudi Arabia, awaiting repatriation to their home country, Amnesty International said.

The Criminal Justice Commissions (CJC) Act, No. 14 of 1972, marked the beginning of the collapse of Sri Lanka’s criminal justice system. The process that started then, gradually expanded further and further, and today, the criminal justice system in Sri Lanka is virtually dysfunctional.

SLPP MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in a phone call on Friday (16) morning, had berated him in a demeaning and threatening manner.

It is reported that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has threatened SLPP MP Wijeydasa Rajapakse PC, over the phone today (16).

The Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris rushed to the Abayaramaya Temple yesterday evening (15) after SLPP MP Wijeydasa Rajapakshe PC, slammed the government over the Port City Economic Commission Bill at a press briefing held at the Abayaramaya Temple on Thursday.

The proposed Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill will turn the Colombo Port City - a dream project of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa - into a Chinese colony, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) alleged.

The Leader of the United National Party (UNP), former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is slated to assume the UNP's vacant national list seat in the month of June, party chairman Vajira Abeywardena disclosed.

Even the colour of a dress and a name board has become the eyesore of the Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka.

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) has submitted a dossier to the British Foreign Office calling on the UK government to impose sanctions on Army Commander, General Shavendra Silva.

Well-known underworld figure Sanjeewa Samararatne – popularly known as Ganemulla Sanjeewa or Malingamuwe Sanjeewa - who was in custody for plotting to assassinate M. A. Sumanthiran MP as well as for weapons trading and several other charges was released along with 10 others by the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court on April 12, 2021.