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Ahead of new Sri Lanka resolution, civil society and UN highlight ongoing rights concerns
Published at
16.03.2021
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- intimidation
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- surveillance

Civic freedom violations persist in Sri Lanka as the President expands his powers
Published at
31.10.2020
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- protest

Ahead of Sri Lanka elections, lawyers, journalists and activists arrested, threatened and harassed
Published at
17.07.2020
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- protest disruption
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- harassment
- surveillance
- journalist detained
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained

Pardon for war criminal creates chilling effect in Sri Lanka as threats to activists increase
Published at
13.04.2020
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- restrictive law
- intimidation

Journalists and activists targeted as many fear regression of rights following Sri Lankan elections
Published at
15.12.2019
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- protest

Misuse of ICCPR Act and judicial system to stifle freedom of expression in Sri Lanka
Published at
05.07.2019
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- minority groups
- censorship
- journalist detained
- criminal defamation

Activists concerned about counter-terror laws while impunity for past crimes persists
Published at
13.03.2019
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law

Activists fear Rajapaksa’s return to power
Published at
05.11.2018
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- violent protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protest

Activists threatened and attacked while families of the disappeared protest hearings
Published at
07.08.2018
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- religious groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened

Government backs down on restrictive NGO law amendments
Published at
10.04.2018
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- women
- positive CS development
- restrictive law
- internet restriction

Killing of jaffna students prompts unrest in northern Sri Lanka
Published at
26.10.2016
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- religious groups
- minority groups
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest