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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered Former President Maithripala Sirisena to compensate the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks before August 30, 2024, according to local media. In January 2023, Sirisena was found guilty in a case related to the attacks and was ordered to pay Rs. 100 million as compensation to the [...]

The Sri Lanka Navy arrested 22 Indian fishermen on Saturday for alleged illegal fishing in the island nation’s waters and seized three fishing vessels. The fishermen were arrested from the North Sea near Delft Islands during a search operation conducted on Saturday night. Navy Spokesperson Captain Gayan Wickramasuriya said that the arrested fishermen would be [...]

Last month marked 15 years since the end of the civil war between the Sri Lankan State and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) — a brutal conflict that spanned three decades and is estimated to have claimed between 70,000 and 100,000 lives. The country has hosted a series of events aimed at memorializing [...]

The Indian government has asked the Russian government to return the Indian citizens recruited by its army on Tuesday, with foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra confirming the request on Wednesday. This follows the death of two Indian citizens in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, as announced by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday. The Indian embassy [...]

Free speech organization Article 19 released its 2024 Global Expression Report (GER) on Tuesday showing that more than half of the world’s population is “living through a freedom of expression crisis,” unable to speak freely. In 2023, the percentage of people living in this crisis rose to 53 percent, or about 4 billion people. This [...]

Sri Lanka is sending a high-level delegation to Russia to investigate the involvement of hundreds of Sri Lankan nationals reportedly recruited to fight in the Ukraine war, announced a top official on Thursday. Earlier this month, Sri Lankan authorities began investigating these reports, focusing on the trafficking of individuals with military training to fight in [...]

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) apprehended Wednesday an accused offender who had absconded after skipping bail in an espionage case that implicated individuals from Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The NIA said in their statement announcing the arrest: Nuruddin Rafi, who was carrying cash reward of Rs. 5 lakhs, was nabbed from Rajiv Nagar areaof Mysuru, [...]

Sri Lankan security forces continue to impose abduction and torture on Tamil civilians, a Wednesday report from the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) revealed. The report analyzed the statements of 123 Tamils (aggregately detained for a total of 139 times) who were unlawfully detained by Sri Lankan security forces between 2015 and 2022, all [...]

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers on Friday approved a new legislative bill, endorsed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that will allow the state to confiscate any property or proceeds resulting from criminal activities, a spokesperson for the cabinet told local media.  Under the new law, known as the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), the [...]

Under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s leadership, the Sri Lankan civil war reached a brutal conclusion on May 18, 2009, ending a 25-year-long conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist rebel group. Rooted in longstanding grievances, including discriminatory policies against Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, the conflict saw the [...]