News Archive (2007 - June)

(LeN-2007 June 29, 7.45 pm) General Secretary of the SLFP minister Maithripala Sirisena says the government will not reintroduce the criminal defamation act though it was lengthily discussed at yesterday's cabinet meeting. Speaking at the SLFP media briefing today he said the cabinet....

(LeN-2007 June 29, 7.45 pm) President Mahinda Rajapakse is planning on reintroducing the criminal defamation act which was earlier used to imprison journalists and editors. When a cabinet paper in this regard was presented before the cabinet yesterday,...

(LeN-2007 June 29, 7.45 pm) Minister of power and energy Mahindananda Aluthgamage charges that it was former minister Mangala Samaraweera who brought Sinhalese extremism to the SLFP by influencing the former president to join hands with the JVP. The minister said that Samaraweera is now in the farthest of extremism. Speaking to the media....

(LeN-2007 June 29, 7.45 pm) One of the former commanding officers of the Air Force Nishantha Gajanayake who was arrested to question regarding the abductions and disappearances is a close ally of defense secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse and he was bailed out on the same day he was arrested by two other friends of Rajapakse, Nihal Apa Seneviratne and Ashoka Vitarana. This is revealed through a complaint lodged to police by the coordinating secretary of the SLFP Mahajana wing Sripathi Suriarachchi yesterday....

(LeN-2007 June 29, 7.45 pm) Former minister and now the coordinating secretary of the SLFP Mahajana wing Parliamentarian Sripathi Suriarachchi who has become a victim of government harassment yesterday lodged a complaint to the police that there was a conspiracy to kill him....

(LeN-2007 June 28, 9.30pm) Defense columnist of the Thinukkuran Daily newspaper K.P. Mohan has been hospitalized after being severely assaulted by a group of air force personnel while he was on his way to the president's office today...

(LeN-2007 June 28, 9.30pm) Leader of the JVP Somawanse Amarasinghe yesterday said that Mangala Samaraweera and Sripathi Suriarachchi holding discussions with the UNP was a grave political mistake...

(LeN-2007 June 28, 9.30pm) The chairman of the commission appointed by the president to investigate abductions and disappearances, Former high court judge Mahanama Thilakaratne says the commission has still not launched any investigation into the abduction and killing of the two Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Workers since no complaint has been lodged with them yet....

(LeN-2007 June 28, 9.30pm) The Mahaja wing of the SLFP today handed over their proposals to the leader of the opposition and the UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe today. The copy was handed over to the...

(LeN-2007 Jun 27, 11.00pm) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) needs your immediate intervention in the case of a Sri Lankan migrant worker, Rizana Nasik, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for allegedly killing a 4-month-old child....