Sri Lanka has been ranked 139th out of 180 countries in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), placing it among nations where journalism is considered “very serious” in terms of press freedom conditions.

Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), the largest Tamil party in Sri Lanka and once a pioneer of Tamil nationalism in the first decades after the independence of Ceylon, has strayed far from its historic mission.

A Tamil youth activist has been arrested and remanded following a false complaint by a Sinhala Buddhist monk involved in the construction of a controversial vihara in Periyakulam, Trincomalee District.

The National People’s Power (NPP) has released a series of Tamil-language campaign songs for the upcoming local government elections, embracing rhetoric and imagery closely associated with Tamil nationalism and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

From the fishing villages of Mannar to the streets of Jaffna, May Day 2025 was marked by a series of powerful demonstrations, where thousands rallied to honour workers’ struggles and to demand justice, equality, and an end to systemic repression.

Vanni District Member of Parliament Selvam Adaikalanathan has urged the Sri Lankan government to immediately return gold jewellery belonging to Tamil civilians, warning against attempts to seize the property that was taken by the military during the armed conflict.

The Director of Communications for Sri Lanka’s Presidential Media Division, Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi, has cast serious doubt on the Sri Lankan narrative surrounding two of the deadliest attacks on Sinhala civilians in 2006 — the Welikanda and Kebithigollewa massacres — and suggested that senior state-linked figures, including Pillayan and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, may have had more to gain from the violence than the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) has issued a letter to Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake, calling for the immediate withdrawal of a Gazette notification issued under Section 4 of the Land Settlement Ordinance, which could pave the way for the mass appropriation of lands in the Tamil North-East.

The letter, dated 3 May 2025 and signed by ITAK General Secretary M.A. Sumanthiran, raises grave concerns over Gazette No. 2430 issued on 28 March 2025, which gives landowners just three months to formally assert ownership claims before their lands are declared state property under Section 5(1) of the Ordinance.

The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has filed a formal complaint with Sri Lanka’s Election Commission (EC), accusing Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya of violating election laws by conducting National People’s Power (NPP) campaign meetings inside Hindu temples in the Jaffna District.

The Sri Lankan government has issued a Gazette notification announcing the mass appropriation of lands across the Tamil homeland, including large coastal areas from Pudumatalan to Mullivaikkal—site of Sri Lanka's genocide of Tamils in May 2009.