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Chamila Jayasinghe released on bail.

May 28, 2021 Editor

The Magistrate’s Court today ordered the release on bail of Chamil Jayasinghe, an Assistant Director of the Kotmale Land Title Settlement Department, an officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, who was arrested yesterday. Police have filed charges against him under Section 120 of the Penal Code for allegedly trying to provoke the public by posting a fake post on his Facebook account about a massacre in Sinharaja. Attorneys-at-Law Manju Shree Chandrasena, Nalin Weerakoon, Thisara Chamara, Manjula Pathiraja, Lalith Pathirana and Karunaratne appeared for Chamil Jayasinghe in court. Chamil Jayasinghe…

BASL hits out: Condemns the failure of the Police including the IGP to protect persons in custody

May 18, 2021 Editor

The Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has strongly condemned the recent killing of two suspects in police custody, namely Melon Mabula alias ‘Uru Juwa’ and Tharaka Perera Wijesekera alias ‘Kosgoda Tharaka’ which has occurred on two consecutive days. In a statement today (13), the BASL pointed out that the Attorney-at-Law representing Tharaka Wijesekera had made representations to the Police as well as the IGP, the Director of the CID and the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) with regard to their safety prior to…

Ahnaf Jazeem: The Silenced Poet – Ruki Fernando

May 18, 2021 Editor

“We will grit our teeth and with submission to god, wait, even if the adversary aims at us the stone in the catapult sling, and aims the arrow at us, with his bow. Even if we have to walk through fire, Languish without food, Be struck with disease, We will follow the path of Ahimsa (non violence)” – Thaneer (Water), Poem by Ahnaf Jazeem, from the collection Navarasam (Nine Emotions), translated by Prof. Sumathy Sivamohan and Dr. Mahendran Thiruvarangan The author of the above poem is a 26-year-old Muslim poet…

දැන් අධිකරණයේ කාර්යභාරය පොලීසිය බාර අරන්

May 17, 2021 Editor

Covid -19 and the constitution

May 11, 2021 Editor

Basil Fernando Arundhati Roy, prominent writer and social activist in India has written several important articles in the recent few days on the problem of the spread of Covid and the vast numbers of deaths that are taking place in India. In an article written just a few days back, Arundhati Roy directly addresses the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi and points to the fact that the Covid crisis in India is a problem of governance in India. System of governance have failed and it is now threatening the…

“Don’t try to act macho”- Magistrate warns activist; Impartiality of the Magistrate questioned

May 10, 2021 Editor

Colombo Additional Magistrate Mrs. Rajindra Jayasuriya has reprimanded the youth who encouraged fellow citizens to honk vehicle horns in protest of stopping vehicles in order to let elite personnel pass. When the youth was produced in court, Mrs. Jayasuriya had told him to not to act macho. “Don’t try to act macho. Behaving like lunatics for everything,” she has said. Drivers, who were encouraged by the youth, objected by sounding vehicle horns protesting the stopping traffic on the main road by the police for a VIP convoy to pass following.…

It Is Time ‌for The Judiciary to Defend Itself

April 30, 2021 Editor

By Basil Fernando The recommendations by a Commission appointed by the President, recommending that a large number of criminal cases that have been filed in the Courts of Sri Lanka be withdrawn, is the deadliest blow that has been dealt to the administration of justice in Sri Lanka. If this recommendation is put into effect, the consequence would be that of replacing the Judiciary of Sri Lanka with anyone that the President may choose to appoint in order to annul any of the proceedings that are instituted in a court…

දරුවෙකුගේ කන පැලූ ගුරුවරයාට අධිකරණයෙන් දුන් තීන්දුව | @Aithiya Media

April 30, 2021 Editor

Lasantha Jagath Kumara Torture | පොලීසියේ අවම බලය බිලිගත් ජගත් කුමාර |

April 27, 2021 Editor

Depriving the arrested student opportunity to sit for the GCE Advanced Level examination by Gokeralla Police…

March 30, 2021 Editor

A 19-year-old student from Dodamgaslande, Kurunegala has been remanded for four months on charges of illegally possessing heroin. The student, who was studying for the GCE Advanced Level at the Sastharachindra Pirivena College, Polgolla, was on his way to a friend’s house on October 10 when he was stopped by a group in plain clothes and asked for cannabis. Upon hearing about the incident, which took place about 500 meters from the house, the student’s relatives went to the scene and inquired about the incident. Although the relatives did not…