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By Aanya Wipulasena and Rajitha Jagoda Arachchi
Probe into Easter Sunday attacks
“The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Easter Sunday attacks recommends that the Attorney General consider instituting criminal proceedings against former President Maithripala Sirisena under the Penal Code,” the recently released COI report stated in its recommendations.
Several other high-level officials, including former Defence Secretary Hemasiri...
Eighteen months in operation, Sri Lanka’s Right to Information law is empowering citizens all over the island – from newsrooms to tiny village hamlets. Bolstered by a powerful and public-oriented Commission set up to hear appeals when information from a state entity is not forthcoming, the law is the first of its kind to serve the people rather than officialdom and a...
By Aanya Wipulasena and Rajitha Jagoda Arachchi
Recently released video footage depicting prison officials brutally assaulting unarmed inmates at Angunakolapelessa Closed Prison...
In the wake of the stunning victory of democracy over autocracy, the Maldives glimpsed what happened three years ago in its...