Stalin’s warning of govt. repression comes true
Just hours after top teacher trade unionist Joseph Stalin warned of government plans to use anti-terrorism laws to repress protestors, three arrestees have been sent behind bars on detention orders.
Just hours after top teacher trade unionist Joseph Stalin warned of government plans to use anti-terrorism laws to repress protestors, three arrestees have been sent behind bars on detention orders.
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Dullas Alahapperuma has written to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena asking him to be beware of ‘hate indicators’ when making appointments to parliamentary committees.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has visited senior artiste Jackson Anthony, who is receiving treatment at Colombo National Hospital for serious accident injuries.
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is set to return home at the end of this month, is to be named to parliament on the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) national list.
In the run-up to the UN Human Rights Council meets in September, the government has repealed anti-LGBT+ laws found in the Emergency legislation.
Government is to take stringent legal action against corrupt officials and interested individuals for trying hard to sabotage the present fuel procurement process to push the country into difficulties even by going to the extent of spreading false information and carrying out disruptive activities.
A top UN report has found Sri Lanka has failed to abolish slavery it’s found to be widespread from the plantation sector to the workers in the garment industry and those poverty-stricken working as housekeepers and maids, particularly in the war-affected areas.
Exacting revenge by grave proportions targets the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna‘s (SLPP) reformist group led by Dullas Alahapperuma, political sources say.
Leading health sector trade unionist Ravi Kumudesh says the drug mafia gets upset over moves to encourage the local production of pharmaceutical drugs.
One of the groups at the Galle Face protests, Black Cap Movement, says it vehemently opposes granting a cabinet position to Namal Rajapaksa in a future all-party government.