Three political prisoners detained at Anuradhapura prison have urged the government to charge or release them. 

The men, who have been accused by the Sri Lankan authorities of links to the LTTE, have been on hunger strike since September 23. 

Reiterating their demands on Sunday, the men have threatened to stop taking fluids as well.

Swiss police on Saturday shot dead an asylum seeker from Sri Lanka during an altercation in the refugee detention centre. 

The 38 year old asylum seeker is reported to have been armed with a knife. Police were called after he charged at two other asylum seekers. 

The incident occurred in Brissago, Switzerland. 

A video has emerged of an Assistant Superintendent of Police assaulting an arrested protester in Hambantota on Friday. 

The National Police Commission on Saturday announced it had launched an investigation into the alleged assault. 

See video here. 

The British minister for Asia and the Pacific met with the Sri Lankan government-appointed governor of the Northern Province during his trip to Jaffna on Friday.

The Northern Provincial Council has urged the Sri Lankan government to intervene in the case of Tamil political prisoners hunger striking in Anuradhapuram prison.

Following a resolution passed at the 107th sitting of the council on Friday, the council chair C. V. K. Sivagnanam wrote to the Sri Lankan President, Prime Minister and Minister of Resettlement and Prison Reforms.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on truth , justice, reparations and guarantees of no recurrence Pablo de Greiff is to carry out an official visit to Sri Lanka, from 10 to 23 October 2017.

The UK’s Foreign Office Minister for Asia and the Pacific visited Jaffna today, as part of an official visit to the island.

The Sri Lankan navy on Thursday detained four Indian fishermen and confiscated their boat, for allegedly entering the island's waters. 

The fishermen have been identified as Tamilselvan (50), Appadurai (52), Rangasamy (45) and Jeeva (55). 

The men have been taken to Karainagar in Sri Lanka, Times of India reported. 
 

Sri Lankan police have raided a house in Devipuram, Puthukudiyiruppu on Tuesday arresting a man who they claim was manufacturing arms, Ceylon Today. 

The police claim to have found "three dipping guns, seven muzzle-loaders, 12 pipes used for making guns, ten kilos of T-56 bullets, 500 grams of explosives, saws, pliers and a large quantity of equipment" at the time of arrest. 

Soldiers from Sri Lanka’s Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment donated blood at Jaffna Teaching Hospital earlier this month.

Talks between India and Sri Lanka on the development on oil tanks on Trincomalee are underway, officials from the Joint Working Group (JWG) were quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying. 

Two Jaffna University students shot dead by police last year were remembered in Jaffna, ahead of the one year anniversary of their murders this month.

A former LTTE cadre and restaurant owner in Jaffna has filed a complaint with the Sri Lankan human rights commission after being harassed by police officers who also attacked an elderly employee at his business last week.

On Tuesday, five police officers from the Chavakachcheri police station entered the restaurant in civil clothing and asked for alcohol.

The British Minister for Asia and the Pacific met with TNA and Opposition leader R. Sampanthan in Colombo on Thursday.

In the meeting with minister Mark Field, Mr Sampanthan discussed the TNA’s efforts in the constitution making process.