Justice

By Michael S. Schmidt and Luke Broadwater WASHINGTON - When the House formed a special committee this summer to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, its stated goal was to compile the most authoritative account of what occurred and make…
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By Ambika Satkunanathan In the name of counter-terrorism countries enact repressive laws that restrict human rights. They claim these laws will make us safer. Yet, contrary to claims of increasing national security, the tendency of many…
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By Carol Rosenberg GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In a stark rebuke of the torture carried out by the CIA after 9/11, seven senior military officers who heard graphic descriptions last week of the brutal treatment of a terrorist while in the…
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COLOMBO  – The head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic church, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, is courting controversy again, this time claiming that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had told him he could not implement certain “unpopular” recommendations made…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lankan prosecutors Monday (4) indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say were co-conspirators in the island's worst single terror attack. Almost three hundred…
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THE HAGUE – In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups have established a People's Tribunal to investigate their murders and hold governments accountable. The Tribunal,…
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COLOMBO –The five-member delegation from the European Union (EU) currently in Sri Lanka to review the Generalized Scheme of Preference Plus (GSP+) trade concession amid renewed concerns over human rights abuses,  held crucial talks with…
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By Rukshan Jayewardene Not long after the dust had settled following the government’s long war with Tamil separatism and terror, news filtered in of the kidnapping of baby elephants from the wild. Some dry zone national parks and other…
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COLOMBO – Archbishop Brian Udaigwe, Apostolic Nuncio (the Vatican Ambassador) to Sri Lanka paid a courtesy call on the Foreign Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris on Tuesday (Aug 31) at the Foreign Ministry, in Colombo. During the meeting, the…
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By Mirak Raheem August 30 is marked across much of the world as the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. For the families and the friends of the disappeared and human rights groups working on the issue in countries…
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