US deplores suppression of media in Lanka
Sri Lanka violated human rights last year when it dealt a final blow to Tamil Tiger insurgents and clamped down on media freedom, the US State Department said yesterday.
Defamation campaign against Mr. J. C. Weliamuna
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Sri Lanka.
Attorney General’s words about protecting journalists empty unless he backs them up with action.
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka welcomes the offer made by the Sri Lankan Attorney General, Mohan Peiris, to provide protection for exiled journalists if they return to the island but urges him to take immediate steps to prove he is serious about media freedom.
Commissioner Dissanayake gives up
Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has given up on giving instructions to the relevant authorities to maintain the polls laws and regulations adding that if his orders were not adhered to then there was very little he can do to rectify the situation.
Sunday Leader in ‘contempt of court’
The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has issued notice to the editor of a pro-opposition English weekly to explain the reasons for publishing an article regarded as contempt of court.
Canada says end 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.
US blames govt. for HR violations
The US has blamed the government for being involved in human rights violations last year and has stated that Sri Lanka is yet to make progress into the killings of several high profile people who were murdered as the war came to its bloody end.
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