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A conversation with Right to Life Executive Director Philip Dissanayake..! I would like to explore the history of how you, who were with the new socio-political movement, and moved towards non-governmental organizations… In fact, we realized that the project was a failure because of politics. So it was a time when we were thinking about what to do next. There was a big discussion about this among the youth groups in our party. A group thought to go to the overseas. But I had no intention of leaving this country…

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The launch of the 50th edition of Freedom in the World, which has been tracking global trends in political rights and civil liberties annually since 1973. The event will feature researchers presenting key findings from the 2023 report, followed by a panel discussion on the implications of those findings and the state of democracy worldwide on 9th of march 2023. Michael J. Abramowitz, President, Freedom House, Nury Turkel, Chairman of US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Leopoldo López, Venezuelan political leader, pro-democracy activist and Sakharov Prize laureate and Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld,…

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On January 30, 2022, the Ittapana police arrested a young man named Dinesh Madusanka on suspicion of theft. Later, after hearing the facts about the theft, the police beat him brutally. Also, the eyes and body parts of this man are smeared with kochchi ( chilies). Although Dinesh Madhusanka was released by the police the next day as an innocent person, his body was severely damaged due to brutal assaults by the police officers.But Dinesh was unable to walk due to being hit with sticks on his lower legs. watch…

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On October 28, 15-year-old Harshaka Deshan was shot in the head by a Thihagoda police officer, and now Harshaka is disabled. That is, when he and his friends were going in a three-wheeler to collect the peacock feathers needed for the Kavadi dance for Katina Pinkama at Midellawala temple, another three-wheeler came and stopped the vehicle they were traveling in. It was by police officers who were dressed in civilian clothes and uniforms. Then the police officers who came near Harshaka’s three-wheeler and asked him, “Are you a thug?”.Just then,…

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A special police investigation has been launched against the Panadura South HQI and his team after they were caught on camera physically assaulting female protestors and female cops who were on duty yesterday. Police Spokesperson SSP Nihal Thalduwa told Daily Mirror that following the incident, a special team headed by an ASP from the Panadura Division had been appointed by the Western Province Senior DIG to probe into the harassment caught on camera. Once the probe is completed further action will be taken, Thalduwa said. The video showing the Panadura…

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The Western Province Education Department said that the Principal of the Millaniya Primary School in Horana who was remanded for torturing a group of Grade 5 students will be suspended. Director of the Western Province Education Department Srilal Nonis said a separate investigation is underway over the incident, and the inquiry will be led by an official from the Ministry of Education of the Central Government. Chairman of the National Child Protection Authority Udaya Kumara Amarasinghe said that the police jeep in the custody of the NCPA will be presented…

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The National Child Protection Authority has launched a separate investigation into an incident where grade 5 students from a school in Millaniya were brutally beaten for allegedly stealing money from a school teacher. Several Grade Five students from the Millaniya Primary School in Horana were accused of stealing money from the bag of a school teacher and were punished by the school teachers, and the teachers themselves handed over the students to the local police. Parents allege that students were taken away by police intimidated by electric shock treatment inside…

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A Sub-Inspector has been interdicted by the Police and has been arrested by a special Police team which is conducting an investigation into the shooting of a 15-year old boy in Thihagoda, Matara. The Police Spokesperson said that during a scuffle with a police officer, the officer’s firearm was accidentally discharged and the 15-year old was injured. The Police said that steps were taken to inspect a suspicious three-wheeler in Naimbula,​​Thihagoda. Three people had fled while two others were taken into police custody. It was during this process that one…

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The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has demanded an explanation from the IGP for Sunday’s police violence at Galle Face Green against people, including children, who were peacefully commemorating those who had fallen in the Aragalaya. The HRCSL decided to launch an investigation of its own volition and has given the IGP 24 hours to explain on what grounds police dispersed the commemoration. Footage of police brutality against two small children who had come with their parents to Galle Face Green has gone viral on social media worldwide and…

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