13 human rights and civil society organisations call on Sri Lanka to end violent crackdown on peaceful protesters
NEW YORK: Thirteen human rights and civil society organisations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists have condemned the brutal…
Sri Lanka targets organisers of protests that toppled president
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is cracking down on the people who participated in a protest movement that toppled the island nation’s president last month,…
Sri Lankan civic activists concerned over ‘witch-hunt’ by state
COLOMBO: Citizens’ groups and activists in Sri Lanka have expressed concern over a series of arrests last week, of prominent members of the recent anti-government…
Amid a national crisis, Sri Lankan artists look back – and look forward
COLOMBO: In the four months leading up to July 9 toppling of Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a protest village formed in Colombo, occupying…
Sri Lanka’s international image dealt a body blow after brutal assault on peaceful protestors
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament-elected new President Ranil Wickremesinghe saw his presidency get off to the worst possible start, as hundreds of police and military personnel…
‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests
COLOMBO: A mainly youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days. During the period, the protesters forced a president…
‘The family took over’: how a feuding ruling dynasty drove Sri Lanka to ruin
COLOMBO: Dilith Jayaweera can still recall the moment he realised Sri Lanka was hurtling, unstoppably, towards financial ruin. It was around October 2021 and Jayaweera,…
Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown
NEW YORK: In the evening of May 3, the atmosphere at Galle Face Green, an esplanade along the coastline of Sri Lanka’s capital city of…
Putin fumes after Russian plane seized at Colombo airport, summons Sri Lankan envoy
COLOMBO: Aeroflot has suspended its flights to Sri Lanka after the island nation’s aviation authority prevented a flight of Russia’s flag carrier to depart the…
New Australian government releases Sri Lankan family from immigration detention
SYDNEY: Australia’s new government said it would give temporary visas to a Sri Lankan asylum seeker family held in immigration detention since 2019, a step…