British MP Uma Kumaran called on the UK's Foreign Secretary to expand on the government's sanctions on Sri Lankan war criminals. 

During a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on December 16, the MP for Stratford and Bow highlighted the lack of accountability and political will from the current Sri Lankan government to address war crimes and mass atrocities committed in Sri Lanka. 

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment, Arun Hemachandra, will lead a Sri Lankan delegation to Israel to discuss employment opportunities for Sri Lankans across the country and to strengthen ties between the countries in the sector. 

Five Tamils have been released on bail after they were arrested by Sri Lankan police earlier today during a peaceful protest against the illegally constructed Buddhist temple in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna. 

Protesters gathered outside the illegally built and controversial Tissa Vihara Buddhist temple in Thaiyiddy today to demand the release of the privately owned land that has been encroached upon by the Buddhist temple and to oppose the promotion of a senior monk. 

The Batticaloa High Court granted bail to Ampitiye Sumanarathana, an extremist Buddhist monk who incited violence against Tamils.

The Batticaloa Magistrate’s Court had previously issued an arrest warrant after Sumanarathana failed to appear before the court for the hearing on December 15. 

The Sri Lankan government is expected to nominate Colonel O.R Rajasinghe as the Auditor General, in a move which is considered to undermine the independence of the office and further militarisation of government institutions.

The post of Auditor General has remained vacant since 8 April, and the constitutional council has rejected previous nominees proposed by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake due to multiple conflicts of interest and concerns that the independence of the office would be compromised. 

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that Tamil asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on the island of Diego Garcia.

In December 2024, the BIOT Supreme Court ruled that 64 Tamil asylum seekers, including sixteen children, had been unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands and home to a UK-US military base.

The family of three people injured in a car collision involving former Speaker and National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian Asoka Ranwala has raised serious concerns over the impartiality and pace of the police investigation, fuelling renewed scrutiny over political privilege and impunity in Sri Lanka.