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By Keerthi Rathnayake (Lanka-e-News -04.April.2021, 9.00PM) It has been two weeks since Azath Sally was arrested. The statement We will not change the Muslim law no matter who changes it appeared to be the immediate reason for Azath Sally s arrest. Minister of Police Sarath Weerasekera also stated that he would arrest Azath Sally s based on his statement on Muslim marriage law. However, Attorney General Dappula was of the opinion that it would be a big mess if Azard Salley would be arrested for the statement he made under the ICCPR. An audio recording of former President Sirisena claiming that Sarath Weerasekara is the one who demolished the Ampara mosque had been released to the media at that time. According to the audio recording, Dappula told Sarath Weerasekera that he would be arrested before Azath Salley under the ICCPR. ....
Examinations department too is to be privatized..! (Lanka-e-News - 31.March.2021, 11.00PM) It is reported to Lanka e News that for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka, the Department of Examinations is going to be privatized. The move taken to privatize is a highly secretive and sensitive section of the Examinations Department, which, if left unverified, could certainly lead to larger corruption. These days the Examinations Department is eaamining the GCE Advanced Level and Ordinary Level answer scripts. The marks and data will be computerized by the Department of Examinations within but from now on the Commissioner General of Examinations B. Sanath Poojitha has decided to hand it over to a private company data entry. Officials of the department have objected to this decision but the Commissioner General is scheduled to conduct a preliminary test today 31st. ....
Sri Lanka: ‘Religious Disharmony’ Order Threatens Minorities..! Withdraw Expansion of Notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act..! -HRW (Lanka-e-News -17.March.2021, 4.15PM) Sri Lanka’s government should immediately withdraw an order that allows two-years of detention without trial for causing “religious, racial, or communal disharmony,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, issued on March 9, 2021, expands the draconian and abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The regulation will allow the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to more easily target religious and racial minorities, in violation of their basic rights. The United Nations Human Rights Council is considering a resolution to strengthen monitoring and promote accountability for human rights violations in Sri Lanka, after the UN high commissioner on human rights identified “cle ....
The biggest tax fraud in South Asia or crafty Nandaseeni fraud..! Mahinda must resign..! (Lanka-e-News -13-March-2021, 2.00PM) The finance ministry of the Gotabaa government which says the largest sugar tax fraud done in Asia in broad day light under the Rajapaksa government by conspiring deceiving gazettes was not a fraudulent act but a normal activity of a business folk. The Minister of Finance has reported that the government has lost tax revenue of Rs. 1590 billion through the Ministry of Finance. The Chairman of the parliament fiscal committee Anura Priyadarshana Yapa revealed yesterday. Sajath Mowsoon and Rajapaksas.. Minister of Finance Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa levied a tax of Rs. 50 in June 2020 for imported sugar. The gazette in the 2197/12 of October 13 reduced the tax unimaginable to 25 cents. By the time Gotabaya’s bosom friend Sajath Mowzzoon has already loaded 100,000 metric tons of sugar to Sri Lanka. Customs states that only 45,000 metric tons are ....
An Autobiographical Account by Basil Fernando (Lanka-e-News -11.March.2021, 5.20AM) W.J. Basil Fernando is a Sri Lankan jurist, author, poet, human rights activist, editor of Article 2 and Ethics in Action, and a prolific writer. He was educated at St. Anthony s College, Wattala and St. Benedict s College, Kotahena. He earned a LLB from the University of Ceylon in 1972, registered as an Attorney-At-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1980 and practised law in Sri Lanka up to the end of 1989. He became a legal adviser to Vietnamese refugees in a UNHCR-sponsored project in Hong Kong. He joined the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) in 1992 as a senior human rights officer and later also served as the Chief of Legal Assistance to Cambodia of the UN Centre of Human Rights (now the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights office). He is associated with Asian Human Rights Commission and Asian Legal Resource centre, based in Hong Kong since 1994. In 2014, he was awarded ....