Amnesty International have expressed concern over  "a worrying trend of increased marginalisation and targeting of Sri Lanka’s Muslim community" in a new report as discrimination of Muslims continues to rise on the island. 

In their report, Amnesty International highlighted four new Sri Lankan government proposals and regulations that have been proposed this month which target the Muslim community on the island.

The Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) spokesperson M.A Sumanthiran has expressed that “hopes are high” that India will vote for the resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC, despite Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary, Jayanath Colombage stating that India has “assured” the government of its support against it, reports The Hindu.

^{Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen - Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)}

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General, Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, received a phone call from Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, where relations between the OIC and Sri Lanka were discussed as well as the situation of the Muslim community in Sri Lanka.  

As the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council is set to vote on a crucial resolution on Sri Lanka tomorrow, politicians in Tamil Nadu have come out with statements urging the Indian government to vote in favour of the resolution, and for justice and accountability for Eelam Tamils. 

Sinnarasa Siventhiran, a government school teacher in Kilinochchi, has been summoned by the Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Department (TID), in an entirely Sinhala language notice, to its head office in Colombo for an investigation. 

Siventhiran has launched an official complaint with the Human Rights Commission against the summon contending that he has committed no crimes and the summon is an act of intimidation to his normal course of life. 

Peaceful demonstrations calling on the Sri Lankan government to sever ties with the Myanmar military junta were held by Tamils in Mannar and Batticaloa last week. 

Organised by the North-East Coordinating Committee, the march was joined by human rights activists, civil society forums, people affected by the war and the general public from the North-East. 

In Batticaloa, people and institutional representatives from the surrounding districts of Trincomalee and Ampara also congregated in the Gandhi Park in the district. 

We explore figures from the early decades of the Tamil struggle by animating and bringing to life photographs taken throughout the decades.

Using the ‘Deep Nostalgia’ feature, developed by the genealogy platform MyHeritage, the animated photographs offers a chance to see some of the Tamil struggle’s most memorable figures and moments in a new form.

For many of these figures, no video footage of them exists.

Speaking at the 46^th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Oakland Institute states that it is the international community’s “immediate obligation” to “monitor, protect, and promote human rights of ethnic Tamil and Muslim communities” in Sri Lanka.