The Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF) has extended its support to the hunger strike protest undertaken by Tamil political prisoners demanding their immediate release. Issuing a statement the TCSF said that it would take part in […]
The Government has postponed the diaspora festival which was to take place in December, the Foreign Ministry said. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the Daily Leader that the festival is now likely to take place […]
BY SULOCHANA RAMIAH MOHAN Former militant and national list MP of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman says he does not fear ‘arrest’ by the government, following the arrest of […]
By Mark Salter – Truth and reconciliation is a project that inevitably needs to balance short-term politics against long-term justice. There are signs that Sri Lanka’s new government understands the challenges involved. For Sri Lanka […]
By Ratna Bala – His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Your Excellency, You already know the plight of the Tamil prisoners arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) held in prisons for many […]
The government hopes to mete out justice to those held in prison under the Prevention of Terrorism ACT (PTA) before the end of the year, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe assured the prisoners who are currently […]
WILL WE NEED A ‘HYBRID COURT’ TO CATCH ROGUES? Twenty two containers with 3,154 firearms and 745,859 rounds of ammunition detected at Galle Port – 8.1.2015 The CID commences investigations on the order of the […]
Minister Mano Ganesan visited the ex-LTTE cadres who began a hunger strike on Monday (12) at the Magazine Prison. He said a discussion would be held after a committee meeting on the 20th, regarding the […]
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up at the highest political level the arrest of fishermen from the state by Sri Lanka and said the […]
President Maithripala Sirisena has promised to look into the issues faced by a group of Tamil prisoners who are currently on a hunger strike, after National Dialogue Minister Mano Ganeshan raised the issue at the […]
Former Batticaloa district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian, P. Ariyannethran said at Ampilanthurai that his party would capture all local authorities in the North and East at the forthcoming Local Government election scheduled to be […]
