10/07/2011
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BBC
"Nearly a thousand people gathered in front of Dompe police station threw stones and set fire to police properties in protest against the death of Gayan Rasanga, a father of one, in police custody.
“Some even throw stones for fun when mobs get together,” the minister said adding that it is not a positive phenomenon that people take the law into their hands."
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.
09/30/2011
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Bernama
The Sri Lankan police said on Friday that they had seized over 20,000 copies of a pro-opposition newspaper and had also arrested five people.
09/07/2011
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Asian Human Rights Commission
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME
Mr. Aadawalage Gayan Indika (26) of No 6th Canal, Kagama in Kakirawa in the district of Anuradhapura is married and father of one son. Gayan was travelling with his brother on his motorbike when they were stopped by plain clothed persons who demanded their identities. When Gayan in turn demanded the identities of the group he was told that they were officers of the Kakiwara Police station. Gayan was accused of making illicit liquor and when he refused the accusation he was severely beaten by the officers who he believes were working hand in hand with the person actually producing the liquor. This is yet another example of the breakdown of the Sri Lankan policing system.
08/28/2011
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The Sunday Leader
By KUSAL PERERA The largest number of detainees over the “grease devil” protests, is from Navanthurai, Jaffna. Over one hundred men were reported arrested on August 23, 2011. The time of the arrests was around 01.30 a.m, which is dead of the night, when devils, if any, usually roam. The rounding up operation of fast-sleeping men in their homes was by the military.
08/24/2011
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Indian Express
Colombo, Sep 13 (TruthDive): US Assistant Secretary of State, Robert O Blake’s efforts to meet student representatives of Jaffna university to hear first hand account of human rights violation were blocked by supporters of Rajapakse – the EPDP paramilitary cum political party. Police were mere spectators. Geneva indicated that Sri Lanka’s war crimes report produced by Ban appointed UN panel of experts has been submitted to the UN’s Human Rights Commission. The placards displayed by EPDP supporters asked Blake as to how much dollars he paid or vodka he gifted to get the information from people he met.
08/15/2011
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news.lk
The Northern Province Senior DIG Gamini Silva has said that the main suspect in the attack on the News Editor of Uthayan newspaper Gnanasunderam Kuganathan has been taken into police custody this morning. He has said that a special police team was deployed from Jaffna to apprehend the suspect while at the Kalubowila Hospital in Colombo.
04/08/2011
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State Department, U.S. State Department
2010 Human Rights Report: Sri Lanka from the U.S. State Department. Detailed, with specific examples.
04/07/2011
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BBC
LankaeNews News Editor Bennet Rupasinghe was released on bail by courts despite opposition by the Police.
01/09/2011
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Sunday Times
Mounting incidents of crime in the northern Jaffna and Vavuniya districts have prompted Police to advise residents to wear only imitation jewellery and take extra steps to protect their homes. These are among the measures proposed by two senior Police superintendents in leaflets widely disturbed yesterday in the north.