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| Attack on Kegalle mosque being investigated |
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Police are investigating an attack on the Kegalle Jummah Mosque on the Colombo-Kandy Road after a group of unidentified persons allegedly stoned the building causing minor damage to the structure.
Speaking to the Daily FT, Police Spokesman SSP Buddhika Siriwardane said that the attack had taken place around 2 a.m. on Thursday morning and that investigations were continuing into the incident, based on a complaint by the Chairman of the Mosque.
SSP Siriwardane said that two windows had been broken in the attack. Chief Min
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| “Story of a fast is a lie. But one person is not eating” – Prisons Commissioner |
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Prisons Commissioner P.W. Kodippili in an interview with a foreign radio station on the current crises in Sri Lankan prisons has said that no inmate in the Welikada Prison was engaged in a fast. However, when the journalist from the foreign radio station had asked for the name of the inmate, the Commissioner had said it was not actually a fast, but one prisoner was not eating any food.
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| Boycott Sri Lanka, Robertson urges |
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Falling out ... President Mahinda Rajapakse with Shirani Bandaranakaye in May 2011, soon after she was appointed as Sri Lanka's first woman chief justice.
Falling out ... President Mahinda Rajapakse with Shirani Bandaranayake in May 2011, soon after she was appointed as Sri Lanka's first woman chief justice. Photo: AFP
LONDON: The prominent barrister Geoffrey Robertson wants Australia and other commonwealth countries to boycott a leaders' meeting in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo to protest against the i
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| Human Rights lawyer under threat |
| 2013-03-01 |
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Amnesty International has sent out an urgent appeal for the protection of human rights lawyer Lakshan Dias who is reportedly under threat.
In the appeal, Amnesty says since 22 February Dias has reported being followed and has been under surveillance by unidentified men who have sought information about him from his wife and neighbors. “Colleagues are concerned that he is in danger of enforced disappearance and physical violence.
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| will move strong resolution against Lanka in Geneva —Visiting official |
| 2013-03-01 |
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Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Asia Bureau, USAID, Denise Rollins yesterday said that the wording of the second US resolution on Sri Lanka, scheduled to be moved at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), would be stronger.
Rollins said that the US expected the GoSL to address accountability issues. She was responding to a query at a briefing held at the United States Information Service (USIS). Rollins stressed that the US was not alone in pushing Sri Lanka to address accountability issues. Acco
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| Colombo 'enemy' of Tamils |
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The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) yesterday urged India, to change its Sri Lanka policy and branded Colombo as an 'enemy' of the Tamils.
"It is time the Lanka-centric approach of the External Affairs Ministry is changed to a Tamil welfare-centric approach," AIADMK Leader, V. Maitreyan said in the Rajya Sabha.
"As far as we Tamils are concerned, Sri Lanka is an enemy country, and it will remain so until justice is meted out to the Tamils," he said.
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| Change CHOGM venue – Miliband |
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UK MP and former Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, supporting further action on Sri Lanka at the 22nd Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, in a video message, urged the UK and other Common-wealth members to call for a change of venue for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Colombo.
MP Miliband was one of the key international speakers who partici- pated at the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) third anniversary celebrations held at the Committee , Houses of Parliame
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| HR situation in SL should remain on the agenda-says Eamon Gilmore |
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The representative for the European Union , Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland , Eamon Gilmore, addressing the 22nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council session said that Sri Lanka should remain on the agenda of the UNHRC.
''The EU believes that the current human rights situation in Sri Lanka and accountability and reconciliation should remain on the agenda of this council.''
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| UNHRC refuses to stop screening of video |
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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has refused to stop the screening of the Channel 4 film “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka” organized by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and FIFDH to be held at the UN premises in Geneva tomorrow.
The President of the UN Human Rights Council Ambassador Remigiusz A. Henczel has however observed that such events “do not reflect an official position of the Council”.
He said this in response to a protest lodged by the Permanent
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| Steps taken to transfer imprisoned Indians |
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Steps have been taken to transfer been imprisoned in the country.
The Ministry of Prisons and Prison Reforms said the opportunity was granted to a group of prisoners at the Welikada Prison.
The individuals had been imprisoned under charges of trafficking drugs.
The Ministry said that this step was taken based on an agreement between the two countries.
It is reported that two prisoners had already been sent back to India while the rest of the group are to be sent back to Ind
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