Former Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has acknowledged a procedural error in the granting of a presidential pardon to Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero, saying the relevant documents were not submitted to the
US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google have been supplying advanced AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Chinese technology giants that have been placed on a Pentagon blacklist, raising fresh questions in
More
Editorial Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara has publicly accepted responsibility for the Negombo Prison tragedy. That statement cannot be treated as a symbolic gesture made during a moment of grief. In a country
More
The month end saw Daily Mirror blaring “More arrests of lawyers, politicians and senior police officers are likely in the near future” following the arrest of Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne alias Harak Kata
More
Editorial Negombo Prison is not merely the scene of another prison riot. It is the scene of a state failure. Twenty-six people are now reported dead. More than hundred have been injured.
More
“Felix Dias, who served as Minister of Justice in Sirimavo’s United Front government, harboured an extraordinary grudge against the UNP…” That is what a veteran left-wing politician said recently. “What was the
More
A fresh legal intervention has widened one of Sri Lanka’s most closely watched court battles over the investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, with two prominent members of a civic organization
More
A panel convened by the Bar Council will recommend this week that the minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales be raised from 10 to 14, according to reporting by
More
For three decades, Claudia Mary Antonette Sallay lived with the fear that came with having three sons serving in the Sri Lankan Army during a brutal conflict. Every military update carried the
More
by Luxman Aravind When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently declared in Parliament that no crime committed in Sri Lanka would go unheard, he once again placed justice at the centre of his
More
by Durga Velayudham There is something profoundly disturbing when retired President Bishop of the Methodist Church Sri Lanka, Rev. Asiri P. Perera, abandons the moral restraint expected of his office and instead
More
The public debate surrounding the detention of former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay has entered a new phase following an exchange of open letters between his wife,
More
The events unfolding are murky — it is unclear which direction the nation is heading. Since the introduction of provincial governance and the office of governor, Sri Lanka has not previously witnessed
More
Three individuals, including the son of former Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa, have been arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption over an alleged Rs. 120 million bribery transaction
More
For more than four decades, Raimundo Batista de Souza carried memories of a place he believed he would never escape alive. Speaking from Porto Nacional in Brazil’s Tocantins state, where he now
More
by Our Correspondent in Colombo For years, the search for accountability over Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks has unfolded through investigations, commissions, political disputes, public campaigns, and courtroom proceedings. Now, a
More