Tamil families from Jaffna arrived in Colombo today to visit their relatives who have been languishing for years in Welikada and Magazine prisons. 

Signatures calling for the repeal of the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) were collected in Jaffna this morning after a campaign was launched yesterday. 

The hunger strike of 12 Tamil political prisoners, who were detained between 2019 and 2020, has entered its 5^th day as those imprisoned continued to demand for their release.

“We know we can feed this country.”

Farmers in Sri Lanka told me that what they desperately need now is quality fertilizer to increase crop yields. Glad to announce new @USAID funding to help them with upcoming planting seasons. pic.twitter.com/0Zb08ABDSS

A group of US Congress members have urged the State Department to use its leverage at the United Nations Security Council to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In a recent article South Asia Director for Human Rights Watch (HRW), Meenakshi Ganguly denounced President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his government for the appoinment of three alleged human rights abusers.

On 8 September, Wickremesinghe appointed 37 new ministers. Three of the 37 appointees are implicated in serious human rights violations.

Responding to the Sri Lankan government’s brutal crackdown on press freedom, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the “constant attempts to intimidate Tamil media personal” and called “for an end to the use of illegal and abusive methods that dangerously undermine press freedom”.

Sri Lankan authorities have fiercely clamped down on peaceful protests and antagonized protestors during the island’s worst economic crisis and hardship details Amnesty International in a new digest published today. 

A commemoration event was held in Batticaloa today to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Saththurukondan massacre where 185 Tamils were slaughtered by the Sri Lankan army with the assistance of Muslim Home Guards.  

Image from last year's memorial in Batticaloa

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Saththurukondan massacre where 184 Tamils were killed by the Sri Lankan army.  

Manuel Uthayachandra, the Mannar head of the Association of Relatives of Enforced Disappeared (ARED) condemned the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry for dismissing international involvement in investigating human rights abuses against Tamils in the North-East. 

The latest report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on child malnutrition in Sri Lanka , has been rejected by Sri Lanka's health ministry. 

Speaking to the media yesterday at the Health Ministry, Health Ministry secretary Janaka Sri Chandraguptha say they are not satisfied with the data the UNICEF used to form the report. 

Valasingham Krishnakumar, President of Batticaloa District Tamil Journalists Union has been summoned by Sri Lanka's Counter Terrorism and Terrorism Investigation Department (CTID) for an investigation in Colombo.