Sri Lankan riot police last Wednesday attacked a protest march of about 1,000 Colombo port workers opposed to the government’s plan to privatise the East Terminal of Colombo harbour. The police ...

COLOMBO – Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding the resignations of the country’s president and prime minister ...

The isolation status in 25 police areas in Colombo and Gampaha Districts will be continued from 5.00 am today as those areas remain high-risk areas for COVID-19. According to the health authorities, ...

COLOMBO – Police in Sri Lanka on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters angry over a decision to postpone local elections after the government said it cannot finance them ...

Appeals unheeded: President Wickremesinghe appointed Deshabandu Thennakoon, whom the same local commission of inquiry into the massacres accused of negligence, as inspector general of Sri Lanka's ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Amantha Perera and Joanna Slater, The Washington Post COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Suicide bombers struck churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, ...

(FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 21 February 2003 FMM press release: Police obstruct journalists reporting at JVP demonstration The FMM strongly condemns the police water canon attack (mixed with tear ...