Court to hear Anoma's case The Habeas Corpus application filed to the Court of Appeal by Anoma Fonseka was fixed to be taken up before a three judge bench on March 19. [Views:29] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
Govt. challenges AI on hit list The Defence Ministry today challenged the international human rights group Amnesty International (AI) to release the allged media hit list in it's possession to the public in order to prove that such a list actually exists. [Views:16] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
SF appeares before Court martial The first Court Martial, appointed to try General Sarath Fonseka on charges against his participation in political work while in active service commenced its sittings as scheduled at 9.30 a.m. today at Navy Headquarters. [Views:25] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
UNP releases manifesto The United National Party (UNP) released its manifesto in Colombo a short while ago. The main aim and objectives of the manifesto are to allow the public to decide on whether an executive presidency was needed, to reduce the term of parliament to five years and to hold general and provincial elections on the same day to save cost.
[Views:29] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
AI alleges media on hit list The international human rights group Amnesty International (AI) claims it is in possession of a “hit list” believed to be compiled by the Sri Lankan intelligence unit with names of at least 35 leading journalists and NGO officers. [Views:24] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
Trinco HQI, 3 cops suspended
The Head Quarters Inspector (HQI) of the Trincomalee police and three policemen have been suspended pending investigations into the killing of a man in a police raid in Trincomalee. [Views:20] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
Police swarmed with cut-outs The police are unable to remove all the political posters, cut outs and banners before the General Elections as there are well over 7000 candidates who have decorated the roads with campaign materials, the IGP said today. [Views:18] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
US report vague, non-specific
The Ministry of Human Rights says the human rights report released by the US State Department last week consists of vague, non-specific and unverifiable information on Sri Lanka and would appear to fall short of the high standards that the State Department professes to uphold. [Views:17] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
SC reprimands Sunday Leader, orders to carry apology The Supreme Court today reprimanded the Sunday Leader chief editor Federica Janz over a contempt of court case lodged against the newspaper. The complaint claimed that the Sunday Leader published an opinion article defaming the deputy Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayaka. [Views:33] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
UK experts negotiating with pirates
A team of British experts are currently negotiating with Somali pirates for the release of the Sri Lankan crew members aboard the hijacked Saudi vessel ‘Al-Nisr Al Saudi’ and the negotiations are expected to go on for over a month, sources said.
[Views:8] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
Ex CJ calls Lanka undemocratic Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva charged today that Sri Lanka had become an undemocratic country by betraying all its human rights principles which it had signed with the international community over the years.
[Views:19] [Tue, Mar 16, 2010] [Full Article]
Discrepancy in WB funding The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) alleges that there is discrepancy in the funds allocation by the World Bank (WB) to Sri Lanka. SLMC Member, Hassen Ali told Daily Mirror online that his party had received several complaints from the public regarding discrepancies in the distribution of housing loans by the World Bank through the local authorities, and stated that opposition supporters were left out from the funding process [Views:31] [Mon, Mar 15, 2010] [Full Article]
We are firm on demand, says TNA Contrary to claims by a section of the media that the Sri Lanka’s pro-LTTE political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), has given up its stance on Eelam, the alliance has reiterated the demand on the right to self-determination of Tamils. [Views:32] [Mon, Mar 15, 2010] [Full Article]
Prabha’s mother off to Canada Former TNA MP M.K. Shivajilingam has made arrangements to send the mother of slain LTTE Leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran to Canada where her daughter Vinothini Rajendran lives. [Views:101] [Sat, Mar 13, 2010] [Full Article]
Canada says end state of emergency
Canada, home to the biggest Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, has urged Sri Lanka to lift the state of emergency imposed during the onslaught on the Tamil Tigers. [Views:77] [Fri, Mar 12, 2010] [Full Article]
NAM flays Ban’s move on Lanka The Non Aligned Movement (NAM) has expressed concerns over moves by UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon to appoint a panel of experts to advice on accountability issues on Sri Lanka.
[Views:62] [Fri, Mar 12, 2010] [Full Article]
SF Court martial next week General Sarath Fonseka is to be produced before a court martial next week over seven charges including for engaging in politics while serving in the army and violating army regulations when procuring weapons, the military said. [Views:92] [Fri, Mar 12, 2010] [Full Article]
SF court martial to be challenged The Democratic National Alliance (DNA) will file a case in the Colombo High Court this week, challenging the government’s decision to court martial former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka (SF), the JVP said.
According to media reports, the military will appoint three major generals, Weerathunga, Jayathilaka and Wijethunga to the Court martial panel which is likely to be held this week. [Views:73] [Fri, Mar 12, 2010] [Full Article]
Clash erupts in Passara A clash has erupted in Passara between supporters of CWC Leader Arumugam Thondaman and Former Deputy Health Minister Wadiwel Suresh. Minister Thondaman alleged that the Deputy Minister tried to shoot him while the Deputy Minister alleged that his office was attacked by Thondaman’s supporters. [Views:80] [Thu, Mar 11, 2010] [Full Article]
Exiled journalists asked to return
Sri Lanka's Attorney General Mohan Peiris has said he was prepared to offer protection to any of the nation’s journalists who return to the country from exile, the US based media rights group, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said [Views:48] [Thu, Mar 11, 2010] [Full Article]
