Sri Lankan police and Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers have shut down University of Jaffna campus after students cut a cake to celebrate the 67th birthday of LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran earlier today, in a secret ceremony held on the campus grounds.

“By the afternoon, everyone was chased out,” university sources told the Tamil Guardian. “The police told the [university] security not to allow anyone inside [and] CID and police are outside the university […] it’s a risky situation right now”

The Mullaitivu magistrate’s court revoked its ban on Maaveerar Naal and injunctions placed on dozens of Tamil politicians and civil society members, stating that the need to remember the dead was a fact of human nature.

On Thursday, the Magistrate T. Saravanabavan amended the court’s earlier judgement which had granted Mullaitivu police’s applications for bans on commemorations, and 72 individual injunctions against politicians, activists and community leaders.

Students at the University of Jaffna cut a cake to celebrate the 67th birthday of LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran earlier today, in a secret ceremony held on the campus grounds.

Following high-profile meetings with the US State Department in Washington and New York, as well as meeting the British High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Colombo, Tamil National Alliance spokesperson MA Sumanthiran met with Minister for South Asia, Tariq Ahmad.

British MPs Elliot Colburn and Theresa Villiers have called on the British foreign secretary to impose Magnitsky style sanctions on Sri Lanka's army commander, Shavendra Silva, who has been credibly accused of war crimes.

In announcing the participant list for the virtual US “Summit for Democracy” democratic summit, which is to be held from 9-10 December, the State Department has excluded Sri Lanka amidst growing concerns over the island’s dire human rights record.

An installation was set up in front of Britain's Houses of Parliament in Westminster, Central London earlier today, with thousands of Karthgaipoo flowers bearing messages of remembrance to mark Maaveerar Naal.

Students at the University of Jaffna paid tribute to those who gave their lives to the Tamil liberation struggle today, despite a ban imposed by the Jaffna Magistrate Court on Maaveerar Naal commemorations.

_{File Photo: Theeruvil grounds on Maaveerar Naal 2019}

Valvettithurai city council denied permission to use the Theeruvil grounds for Maaveerar Naal commemorations following a request from the Sri Lankan security forces.

The Sri Lankan military harassed and photographed Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) members preparing Maaveerar Naal site in Point Pedro.

Armed and masked soldiers wrote down licence plate numbers and threatened TNPF members despite, Point Pedro Magistrate Court dismissing applications filed by state police seeking a ban on Maaveerar Naal events, on Monday.

The trial has begun of the 25 men accused of planning the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, which killed nearly 270 people and injured about 500 people when churches and luxury hotels were targeted by members of National Thowheed Jamath -(NTJ), a homegrown extremist Islamic group.

The suspects are facing over 23,000 charges in total.

Police Scotland has informed the UK High Commission in Sri Lanka that they will not extend their training contract with Sri Lanka’s police force in March 2022, when it is set to expire, due to ongoing human rights concerns.