Subject: UN High Commissioner for Human Right’s upcoming visit to Sri Lanka June 16, 2025 We are writing this public letter in connection with your forthcoming visit to Sri Lanka, from June 23
The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice (SLC) welcomes the UK Government’s announcement of targeted sanctions against senior Sri Lankan military officials involved in serious human rights violations during the final stages of the
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP,Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs,Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office,King Charles St, London, SW1A 2AH 20 November 2024 Dear Foreign Secretary, We welcome the stated
Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice is calling on the UK government to impose targeted sanctions on key perpetrators of human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Decades after the end of the
JOIN US on June 25 for our Arts Exhibition marking The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Through diverse artistic expression, we aim to shed light on the ongoing
Police Scotland will not continue training the Sri Lankan police force, it was announced last week. Chief Constable Iain Livingstone confirmed during a meeting with the Scottish Police Authority on 24 November 2021 that no further deployments
Police Scotland’s training of Sri Lanka’s abusive police force is currently paused. Now we have an opportunity to cancel the training altogether. Our friends at Freedom from Torture are running a campaign asking
Yesterday, 4th August, Ahnaf Jazeem’s Fundamental Rights case was taken up before the Supreme Court after several delays. The court ordered the prison authorities to give his lawyers confidential access to Ahnaf in remand prison
On the first anniversary of the arrest of poet Ahnaf Jazeem, we call on the Sri Lankan authorities to end their problematic investigation and immediately release him. We also call for the immediate repeal
On 14 April 2020, prominent human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah was arrested by Sri Lankan security forces under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) for alleged involvement in the tragic Easter Sunday bombings in
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