10/02/2011
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Lanka Business Online
Oct 02, 2011 (LBO) - Five police officers have been arrested in Sri Lanka after thousands of angry citizens surrounded a police station seeking justice, where a suspect had died in custody, a media report said.
02/23/2011
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TamilNet
The Tamil National Alliance Tuesday filed a fundamental rights violation petition in the Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court against the forced registration of the districts of Jaffna and Killinochchi by the Sri Lanka Army. Parliamentarians Maavai Senathirajah, Suresh Premachchandran, Appathura Vinayagamoorthy and Easwarapatham Saravanapavan of the Jaffna district and Sivagnaam Sritharan of the Killinochchi district have signed the petition. The petition was filed by Attorney-at-Law Mohan Balendra, legal sources in Colombo said.
01/01/2011
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BBC
Election Commissioner has no powers to issue orders to the media during forthcoming local government elections, says the Elections Department.
11/11/2010
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BBC
Sri Lanka regulates gambling for the first time - in contrast to recent conservative social measures taken by the government.
07/07/2010
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Asia Times, Inter Press Service
COLOMBO - When garment factory workers outside Colombo once organized a noisy protest over a bonus issue, police threatened to file charges - of hostage-taking - against them. The Sri Lankan authorities zeroed in on this because the workers' senior managers were inside the factory premises during the protest.
03/11/2010
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BBC
The Sri Lankan military has announced it is putting defeated presidential candidate and former army chief Gen Sarath Fonseka on trial next week.
02/21/2010
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Sunday Leader
The government may consider re-summoning the now dissolved parliament in March to extend the emergency regulations currently in place by another month.