According to the JVP, there is no difference between the United States backed proposal on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC and what the Sri Lankan government has pledged. JVP MP Vijitha Herath alleged that in fact the Government and US delegations at Geneva are working hand-in-hand. Herath added that the Government and the US has [...]

Visa fees will not be charged from foreigners under 12 years of age and from transit passengers disclosed the Cabinet. Accordingly on a proposal by President Mahinda Rajapaksa as Minister of Defence and Urban Development cabinet has decided to provide exemption for children under 12 years of age and for transit passengers who stay in [...]

Despite concerns about Sri Lanka’s human rights record and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s threats to boycott a major Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Colombo next year if it doesn’t shape up, the Foreign Affairs department is planning to spend 11 million Canadian dollars updating the Canadian high commission in Colombo. The design work for the new [...]

A man has been sentenced to death by a court in Tehran due to spying for the CIA, where he is an American man of Iranian descent. Amir Mirzai Hekmati was “sentenced to death for co-operating with a hostile nation, membership of the CIA and trying to implicate Iran in terrorism,” semi-official Fars news agency [...]