09/28/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka government opens court complex in former rebel capital (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
08/14/2011
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The Sunday Leader
By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole As I enjoy a well-deserved rest in London, having fled there because of harassment and threat of arrest, TamilNet has issued a description of my travails with inaccuracies and the claim that I have fallen out with the President.
06/03/2011
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Lanka Business Online
June 03, 2011 (LBO) - The International Bar Association’s human rights arm said it was concerned over what it called "the increasing erosion of judicial independence in Sri Lanka."
05/12/2011
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BBC
A magistrate's court in Sri Lanka rules that measures to block access to the pro-opposition LankaeNews website be lifted.
03/14/2011
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Daily Mirror
TNA Parliamentarians today complained to the Supreme Court that the forcible registration of the residents in the North by the Security Forces is continuing despite the undertaking given to the Court to suspend it immediately.
03/14/2011
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BBC
Parliamentarians from the leading Tamil political party in Sri Lanka has petitioned to the Supreme Court alleging that the registration of civilians continues despite a pledge by the government to halt it.
03/04/2011
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TamilNet
A three-member bench of the Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Thursday terminated the proceedings in the Fundamental Rights application filed by five Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians against the forced registration of resident in the Jaffna district and Killinochchi district by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) after Sri Lanka's Attorney General (AG) informed the Court that SLA will stop forced registration, legal sources in Colombo said. The Deputy Solicitor General, Buvaneka Aluvihare, on behalf of the AG gave the undertaking said that the forced registration would be suspended until a procedure that passes constitutional muster is developed to collect information pertaining to the two districts.
03/04/2011
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Ice News
A Tamil living in Norway has been arrested by police on suspicion of killing three people in Sri Lanka. The 34 year-old man is accused of murdering a police officer in 2004 and two members of a rival group in 2006. The killings are thought to have been carried out on behalf of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the civil conflict in the Asian country.
03/03/2011
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Daily Mirror
The Attorney General today made an undertaking in Supreme Court to suspend the forced registration of residents in North by the military.