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Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Friday, December 11, 2020

Conduct postmortem and reveal the causes of deaths of detainees in Mahara prison

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By Anthony Vinoth,  Coordinator - Sri Lankan Collective Against Torture  Sri Lankan Collective Against Torture is highly concerned about the...
Friday, November 06, 2020

Police pays Rs. 200,000 damage to a tortured man in Anuradhapura

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Supreme Court of Sri Lanka recently ordered the Inspector General of Police to pay the damage of Rs. 100,000 to a young man as compensation ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Prisoner killed in Sri Lanka's Monaragala prison

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A prisoner has been killed in Monaragala Prison of Sri Lanka's Uva Province by prison officials.  The officials have assaulted the priso...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Sri Lanka's Udugama police violate human rights of a man who violated animal rights

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When I watched this video, I recalled the past I was taken like this in police and military vehicles hands and legs bound and pushed under t...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Channel 4 airs Sri Lanka's killing fields; government repeats it is not authentic

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"Footage of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, with its echoes of Srebrenica, means the international community is more likely to act, a ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Killing beggars and disabled; Sri Lanka's new found solution for poverty

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(June 30, 2010,  Colombo -  Lanka Polity )  Sri Lanka's ruling family boasts they would make this country 'the wonder of Asia.' ...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Lankan war was corporate one, says Arundhati Roy

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(June 05, 2010,  Colombo -  Lanka Polity )  The war in Sri Lanka was not just a war of the Sri Lankans against the Tamil people, according t...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Freedom offered by Sri Lanka government to Tamil IDPs backlashes

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(December 21, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Sri Lanka government says it has opened the main highway from Colombo to Jaffna and people now can t...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Expert with ties to FBI and Vancouver Police authenticates “Sri Lanka War Crimes”-Channel 4 Video

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Rhys Blakely in Mumbai V ideo footage that appears to show Sri Lankan troops committing war crimes by summarily executing captured Tamil T...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Tigers begged me to broker surrender

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by Marie Colvin (May 2009) Marie Colvin, recognized as Best Foreign Correspondent in many of the British Press Awards, was wounded when...
Sunday, December 06, 2009

Sri Lanka government bars media acces to IDPs to cover up the faults

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(December 06, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Sri Lanka government has decided to postpone opening of the IDP camps and the newly resettled villag...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Tamil detainees attacked in Sri Lanka prison

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(November 17, Colombo - Lanka Polity )  Sri Lanka's opposition political parties led by the Democratic People's Front and the United...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Eight years in remand for 100 miligrams of heorine in Sri Lanka

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(November 03, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) A suspect charged with having 100 milligrams of heroine was in remand custody without been convicted ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Western super powers become tough on Sri Lanka

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(October 21, Colombo - Lanka Polity ) Two Western Super powers have strongly asked Sri Lanka human rights violations during the last phase ...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Terror suspects languish in Sri Lanka's prisons for more than 10 years without trial, human rights lawyer points out

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(September 11, 2009 - Lanka Polity) C.J. Weliamuna, one of Sri Lanka's leading human rights lawyers says that some Tamil Tiger rebel sus...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Ninety-one suspects die in police custody in Sri Lanka under current President Mahinda Rajapakse

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(September 10, 2009 - Lanka Polity) The number of suspects died while they are in police custody is increasing rapidly after present Preside...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Sri Lanka polity on the verge of the limit of bearing police atrocities

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(August 15, 2009 - Lanka Polity) Sri Lankan polity seems at the brink of the limit of the patience on the ongoing spate of police atrocitie...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Sri Lanka Human Rights Minister's coordinating secretary abducted; suspected of being an underworld leader

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(August 04, 2009 - Lanka Polity) Shan Jayasinghe, a coordinating secretary of Sri Lanka Minister of Human Rights has been abducted by a an ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

A post-Sarath Nanda Silva scenario in the making?

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(July 98m 2009) Two fundamental rights petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking changes to the verdicts delivered under the pu...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

India decriminalises same sex relationships!

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(July 02, 2009) Equal Grounds, a non-profit organization of Sri Lanka that seeks equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-sexual co...