The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ruled that two police officers, responsible for the arrest and detention of fisherman Nimal Chandrasiri in April 2012, must pay Rs. 125,000 each in personal funds, with the State contributing an additional Rs. 250,000. This Rs. 500,000 compensation is to be paid to the victim’s family for the…
Journalist Kalpa Gunaratne was arrested and later released on bail following an incident at the Colombo International Book Fair. The incident in question occurred near a sales stall, where a dispute escalated involving a bouncer, hired externally by the organizing entity, and a customer. The bouncer, tasked with preventing book thefts, allegedly verbally abused the…
Vidarshana Kannangara, a leader of the *Jana Aragala Vyaparaya* who defected from the movement to support President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in the recently held presidential election, has voiced strong dissatisfaction over a recent police appointment. Kannangara, who backed Dissanayake instead of the movement’s candidate Nuwan Bopage in the September 21 presidential election, criticized the appointment…
රැඳවියන්ට සිර කඳවුරු වලදි මෙන්ම, පිටතදි, අධිකරණයේදි විවිධ තාඩන පීඩන වලට මුහුණ දිමට සිදු වෙන බවත් ඔවුන්ගේ ආත්ම ගරුත්වය පහළට ඇද දමන අතර ඒහි උච්ඡතම අවස්ථාව ඒදා මහර බන්ධනාගාරයෙන් දකින්නට ලැබුණු බවද ආචාර්ය විසාකේස චන්ද්රසේකරම් මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුයේ 72 ජාත්යන්තර මානව හිමිකම් දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් (10) දින රයිටු ලයිෆ් මානව හිමිකම් සංවිධානය හා…
