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A petition has been postponed until October which filed by an award-winning author alleging that his arrest and detention based on a short story published on the internet violated his fundamental rights. Writer Shakthika Sathkumara…
The Supreme Court today (14) has been ordered to pay one million rupees as compensation for violating fundamental rights to the petitioner Chadik Shaman (42), a resident of Ihala Bomriya, Kaduwela, who died of a…
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) and the National Police Commission (NHRC) have launched an investigation into the brutal assault by the Hambantota Port Police. Weerasekera Kamkanamge Tharuka Lakshan, a married and father…
An incident of a police constable of the Hambantota Port Police has assaulted two students of a technical college on the road has reported to the Aithiya website. The victim was identified as Pahasara Sudusinghe,…
Trade union leaders allege that the government is attempting to ignore labour rights in its bid to prevent losing the preferential status Sri Lanka was granted to access the European market. A resolution adopted at…
Lakwanitha Peramuna has lodged a complaint to the police headquarters yesterday (July 5) against the Seeduwa Police for failing to enforce the law against three men who assaulted UNP Member of the Seeduwa Municipal Council…
Trade union leaders blame on government's try to disregard workers' rights in planning to prevent Sri Lanka from losing its opportunity to enter the European market easily. A resolution passed last month in the European…
The Sri Lankan Collective Against Torture says that when government authorities abuse power with arbitrary enforcement of the law against marginalised people in the society and In refusing to provide security to those people caused…
Father Nandana Manatunga, Director of the Kandy Human Rights Office says that the government is currently prosecuting cases against torture in a very weak manner and therefore urges the Attorney General to file cases against…
Former Secretary of the Young Journalists' Association, Tharindu Jayawardena says that justice has not yet been done to the journalists who faced torture. Those who attacked Poddala Jayantha are still at large. In addition to…
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