Forwarded Press Release

Press release, 06/14/2007 by AI (Geneva) President Mahinda Rajapakse, as Head of State, must take personal initiative to end the human rights crisis in Sri Lanka, said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan, after a meeting with President Rajapakse today. Ms Khan urged President Rajapakse to use his executive power to invite the United Nations […]

The Kathmandu Post Chronicling the truth http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=106686 By MANJUSHREE THAPA The essay form–now fancifully called literary nonfiction or creative nonfiction—has had a very distinguished history in Nepali literature. Within the genre, jail journals have come to occupy an esteemed niche. Whether it is BP Koirala writing from incarceration in Sundarijal or RK Mainali writing about […]

The following press release was issued by the Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka on April 17, 2007 – http://www.freemediasrilanka.org/index.php?action=con_news_full&id=523&section=news (We also reproduce the relevant article in the Daily Mirror referred to in this release). The FMM is outraged to receive news that the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksha and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa threatened the […]

(New York, April 12, 2007) – The Sri Lankan government is abusing antiterrorism legislation to clamp down on journalists who expose human rights abuses, official corruption, or otherwise question the government’s handling of the civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said today. Standard Newspapers Ltd., which publishes a […]

”  Representatives of the four religions and civil society groups spoke of the need for a political solution rather than a military solution.  In addition, Ambassadors from Norway, the United States and Japan, and High Commissioners of Canada and Australia took part in the event and demonstrated international solidarity with the call of civil society […]

Jakarta, 12 February 2007 The victims and family of the victims of human rights gross violation s cases and KontraS, IKOHI, Demos and Imparsial urge the Third Commission of Parliament to take urgent measure on Attorney General denial to proceed the gross human rights violation. Conclusion taken on meeting between Third Commission with Attorney General […]

Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) notes with dismay the media reports suggesting a move by the government to abolish the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The gravity of this unwise move must be understood in the back drop of the recent revealing reporting by the COPE on scandals in major […]