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Batticaloa District's Civil Society President Sabaratnam Sivayoganathan has been summoned by Sri Lanka's Counter-Terrorism and Terrorism Investigation Department (CTID) for questioning on September 9th.

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The enforced disappearance and massacre of 158 Tamils from the Eastern University in Batticaloa in 1990 was remembered on Monday, marking 32 years since the incident. 

The University of Jaffna Students’ Union is condemning a series of tweets by the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka that commits to protecting the regime against ‘accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and Genocide committed by the Sri Lankan state against the Tamil people” at the upcoming UNHRC session in Geneva. 

Ahead of the 51^st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN High Commissioner has released a scathing report on Sri Lanka outlining the deepening militarisation, the continued harassment of Tamil survivor communities, and the deterioration of human rights on the island.

Illustration by House of Thulasi 

A new report by People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) examines how Sri Lanka has failed to punish perpetrators of conflict-related sexual violence against Tamils.

Following a tense leadership contest, Elizabeth Truss (Liz Truss) has been announced Britain’s new Prime Minister securing 81,326 votes compared to Rishi Sunak's 60,399.

Jaffna Press Club held a memorial event for young Tamil journalist Pragas Gnanapragasam who passed away last year after contracting coronavirus. 

Selvakumar Nilanthan, a Tamil journalist and Batticaloa Press Club secretary, has been summoned to Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) in Colombo later this month. 

@GGPonnambalam 'Astonished and Shocked' by @sajithpremadasa saying the opposition won't be able to support the government in Geneva, given the oppression against protesters.

Opposing the interim budget, the leader of the Tamil People’s National Front, Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, questioned why Sri Lanka’s military was not being downsized.

A.R. Rahman poses with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and other prominent Canadian politicians

The city of Markham has named a street in honour of Indian music icon, A.R. Rahman. 

Human Rights Watch (HRW) have called on Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe to immediately end the use of the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) which has been used recently to detain anti-government protesters.