The 22 September 2026 Trial-at-Bar judgment provides a detailed account of the alleged network behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, tracing the prosecution’s case from ideological indoctrination and recruitment to weapons,
Libyan security authorities have freed more than 200 migrants from what they described as a secret underground prison in the southeastern town of Kufra, uncovering what officials say were inhuman detention conditions
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A search operation carried out by the Prison Intelligence Unit at Sri Lanka’s notorious Welikada Prison has revealed a major security breach, uncovering 16 mobile phones inside the ward where two high-profile
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ordered the Cabinet of Ministers and the Disaster Management Committee to appear before it on July 15 to answer allegations that the government failed to take necessary
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A 25-year-old computer engineer from Kandarmadam, Jaffna, has been arrested by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly posting nude images of her ex-boyfriend on social media, authorities confirmed. The case
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The United Nations Human Rights Office has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on Sri Lanka, concluding that conflict-related sexual violence remains endemic, systematically unaddressed, and buried beneath what it describes
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The law has always advanced in uneasy tandem with technology, often trailing it, sometimes resisting it, but ultimately reshaping itself in response to what society chooses to deploy in the real world.
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South Korea’s special prosecutor is expected to make a sentencing request for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection, Reuters reports, following a brief but controversial attempt to impose martial
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When I recently criticized Sri Lanka’s proposed Prevention of State Terrorism Bill (PSTA), several well-meaning individuals close to the National People’s Power (NPP) urged me to reconsider my stance. I appreciate their
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Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala confirmed in the Sri Lankan Parliament today that investigations have revealed Sarah Jasmine is not dead, though authorities have not been able to verify whether she is
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Editor’s Note: Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith are among the most influential contemporary American legal scholars writing on executive power, constitutional structure, and the law of the presidency. Bauer, a Professor of
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by Luxman Aravind In the predawn darkness of 20 December 1989, the streets of Panama City erupted in chaos as the United States launched Operation Just Cause to capture General Manuel Noriega,
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After almost six months of a US large-scale air-naval offensive against Iran’s underground nuclear reactors to reassert its security credibility in the Middle East, following Israel’s strikes in Qatar that crossed the
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The U.S. Department of Justice has formally indicted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the Southern District of New York, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced on Twitter. Maduro
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Italian prosecutors have arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas through charity organisations operating in Italy, in an operation coordinated by anti-mafia and anti-terrorism units, authorities said on Saturday. Prosecutors in
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Whatever may be said or debated, one fundamental reality must be acknowledged: in the contemporary threat environment, no responsible state can function without a comprehensive legal framework to protect itself and its
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