In “Murdered With Impunity,” Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe describes the unsolved murder of her husband, the editor Lasantha Wickramatunga. Although Wickramatunga was beaten to death on a busy street in broad daylight, the government has failed to apprehend his attackers.
Read our accompanying special report, “Getting Way With Murder” a thttp://cpj.org.
 
See video here : Murdered with […]

The New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy indictment setting forth the case against former U.S. president George W. Bush with the Attorney General of Canada, urging him to
open a criminal investigation against Bush for his role in authorizing and overseeing his […]

WASHINGTON DC, 1 OCTOBER 1330hrs: In a press release titled “Mr President You have been served, lawyers for the Plaintiffs in the Torture Victims Protection Act case against
Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse has said the world’s media may become part of a ground breaking legal action.
President Rajapakse is being accused of extrajudicial killings.
The Plaintiffs in […]

WASHINGTON DC October 1,2011:The plaintiffs in the Torture Victims Protection case against Sri Lanka’s President Rajapakse today filed a motion with the United States District Court in Washington DC seeking authorization to serve summons by publication in a
newspaper or through electronic means as all conventional methods had been denied. The motion also addresses issues of personal […]

UN News Centre, 24 September 2011– Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for a “credible national accountability
process” over actions in the final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka during a meeting with Mahinda Rajapaksa, the country’s President.
Mr. Ban reiterated the need for such a process as envisaged in the joint statement he […]

A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, which have passed laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the internet. It also protested blocking internet access to quell political unrest.
While blocking and filtering measures deny users access to […]

‘If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had power, would be justified in silencing mankind.’-John Stuart Mill in his essay ‘On Liberty’
(1859) Dheeraratne J in the case of Thilak […]

Sixteen Human Rights Organisations today (September 16, 2011) called upon the current President of the UN Human Rights Council to provide leadership to the Council towards ensuring accountability in Sri Lanka. They also urged the President to issue an official statement acknowledging the transmission of the UN Panel of Experts Report on Sri Lanka by […]

The eight report (13 July 2011) of the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Human Rights work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the FCO’s
response was presented to British Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command of Her Majesty in September 2011. The report addresses issues relating to Sri Lanka from […]

Sep 15th 2011, 15:00 by The Economist online |  THE United States is not in the business of threatening its friends, said Robert O.
Blake, US assistant secretary of state, in Colombo on September 14th. But, he added, smiling placidly, there will be pressure. If a domestic commission appointed by Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, does not […]