10/01/2011
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BBC Tamil
இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதியால் விடுவிக்கப்பட்ட முன்னாள் போராளிகளை வீட்டுக்கு அழைத்துச் செல்ல முடியவில்லை என்று பெற்றோர் கவலை.
09/30/2011
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Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's government on Friday released nearly 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation's civil war ended more than two years ago.
04/21/2011
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Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS, April 21 -- In a loss of nerve that sadly is not surprising, the UN Secretariat on Thursday delayed its noon briefing in the expectation that it would belatedly release its Panel of Experts' report on war crimes in Sri Lanka -- and then did not release the report.
04/21/2011
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Inter Press Service
The United Nations, which is embroiled in a dispute with Sri Lanka over a controversial report detailing war crimes charges against the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has rejected an appeal to keep the findings under wraps.
10/25/2010
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka\'s former Chief Justice signs petition calling for Fonseka\'s release (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
07/30/2010
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ColomboPage
July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka Rehabilitation Commissioner Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe says that 3,000 surrendered cadres of the defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been released so far.
07/19/2010
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BBC
The Supreme Court has ordered the authorities to release a disabled LTTE suspect who was arrested in a camp for the displaced and has been in detention for months.
01/13/2010
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BBC
A Sri Lankan newspaper editor jailed for 20 years has left prison for the first time since March 2008 after a court ordered him to be freed on bail.
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01/11/2010
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Lines
Against the backdrop of minority voters being potential king makers in the upcoming elections, there was an announcement in Colombo today that Tissainayagam would be released on bail - the Attorney General who had been blocking bail until then announced last month that he has no objections and this opened the way to the release. It is as if the Big Bad Wolf told Red Riding Hood he had become a vegetarian after eating her grandmother. In previous lines posts, contributors have drawn attention to the Tissainayagam saga as a window into the draconian marriage of racism and authoritarianism that has been the hallmark of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). This latest development underscores the extent to which the Rakapakse government added callous opportunism to complete the trinity of crimes that accompany the PTA – it served the government’s political ends to jail Tissainayagam yesterday, and it serves its political ends to release Tissanayagam today. It is not everyday that crass opportunism coincides with a journalist’s liberty – there will undoubtedly be much celebration of the latter, along side clear sighted condemnation of the former.