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| Front Line Socialist Party on the Penal Code Special Provisions Bill |
| 2013-01-22 |
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The Movement for Peoples' Struggle convened a media briefing Sunday on the Penal Code Special Provisions Bill which is to be tabled in Parliament.
''The government said that this bill is being tabled to stop murders, sexual harassment of women and drug smuggling. But the problem is that there is a section of this bill titled public tension. We can responsibly state that this section has been introduced to oppress forces which engage in struggles, like labourers, farmers, fishermen, students, the youth and esp
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| Sri Lankan lawyers to hand over petition against death threats to President |
| 2013-01-22 |
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Sri Lankan lawyers today signed a petition against the death threats received by a group of lawyers who spoke against the impeachment of Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake and the issues faced by the judiciary.
The Lawyers Collective organized the petition signing campaign outside the Hultsdorf court complex today.
Lawyers signed the petition condemning the death threats on lawyers J.C. Weliamune, M.A. Sumanthiran and President's Counsels Dr. Jayampathi Wickramaratne and Romesh de Silva.
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| New bill on detentions would empower a politicized police in Sri Lanka - JVP |
| 2013-01-22 |
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Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says the proposed Criminal Procedure (Special Provision) Bill would give more powers to a police that has been politicized.
JVP Propaganda Secretary, parliamentarian Vijitha Herath told a news conference today that the proposed legislation would enable the detention of persons taken into custody for a period of 48 hours by a police that has been politicized by the current administration.
He explained that Sri Lanka's police is no longer independent fo
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| Sri Lanka has failed to fulfill pledges given to the UN - Tamil party |
| 2013-01-22 |
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Sri Lanka's major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says the government has failed to honor the pledges given to the United Nations on post war reconciliation.
TNA Leader, R. Sampanthan has said that the pledge to engage in post-war reconciliation among the various ethnic communities in the country has not yet been carried out by the government.
Addressing a function in Batticaloa, Sampanthan has observed that the government had made several pledges to the UN and the international communit
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| ‘Navy Suda’ cut to death |
| 2013-01-22 |
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A gangster known as ‘Navy Suda’ was cut to death with a sword yesterday morning at Siyambalagahamula, Pannala.
According to the police, Priyantha Susil Premakumara, alias ‘Navy Suda’, of Odikayamulla, Pannala was a problem to people of the area and there had been many complaints against him. There had also been warrants issued against him by Courts.
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| Female lawyer supporting ex-CJ strangled |
| 2013-01-22 |
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A female lawyer who has supported the impeached chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake has been strangled by a stranger on the road, Lawyers Collective member Sunil Watagala said.
She had gone to Kirulapone police station to lodge a complaint regarding an assault of a person and his mobile phone being dashed to the ground, at court premises.
On her way back, a motorcyclist had stopped her vehicle and told her to down the shutters and strangled her.
She had honked her horn and people had assembled, when the assailant
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| Government on conspiracy to disturb university students education - Mano GaneshanMahinda |
| 2013-01-22 |
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government has still not forsaken the activities of torturing the university students by describing them as terrorists, by branding tigers. Government sector is still using words that the Jaffna university students are “continuously serving detention”.
President Mahinda, Defense Secretary Gottabaya, Jaffna Commanding Chief Hathurusinghe and Higher Education Minister S.P are in the initiatives of transforming military method to the university education activities in the north and their aim is to di
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| Pillay’s statement full of innuendos-SL |
| 2013-01-22 |
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The government today expressed its ‘regret and concern’ over a statement made by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navinethem Pillay regarding the impeachment of former Chief Justice ShiraniBandaranayake and the subsequent appointment of Mohan Peiris to the post
In a strongly worded letter addressed to Ms. Pillay, External Affairs Ministry’s Acting Secretary Kshenuka Senewiratne said that the High Commissioner had made an unwarned comment on a domestic matter of Sri Lanka.
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| Sri Lanka’s Muslim IDPs 25 years on |
| 2013-01-22 |
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Still searching for home nearly 25 years later
COLOMBO, 21 January 2013 (IRIN) - Almost three years after the Sri Lankan government looked into resettling up to 100,000 Muslims displaced from the country’s north during the 1983-2009 civil war, thousands of Muslim families still find themselves in limbo, without the means to return to their former homes.
Despite a time lapse of almost 25 years, Abdul Malik still remembers the announcement Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE - separatist rebels fighting for an inde
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| Another seven asylum seekers decide to return home |
| 2013-01-22 |
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ANOTHER group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers has decided to return home rather than have their claims processed in offshore detention centres.
The group of seven men brought to 942 the number of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have returned home since August 13 - 729 involuntarily and 213 voluntarily - when the Federal Government announced it was reopening offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island.
A Department of Immigration and Citizenship spokesman said the seven men travelled to Colombo from Perth following thei
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