The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has called upon the Government of Sri Lanka to immediately withdraw the Anti-Terrorism Bill and the Online Safety Bill which were published in the Gazettes issued on 15th and 18th September 2023 respectively, and not to proceed with the said Bills.

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A fresh protest is taking place in Mullaitivu to call for an international investigation into the suspected mass grave at Kokkutuduvai.

Teacher trade unionist Joseph Stalin has raised serious concerns about the online safety bill.

A video circulating in social media shows a woman getting beaten up by staff of a supermarket in Hanwella for alleged shoplifting.

A high level team of senior law officials from Colombo flying to Jaffna, to ban ongoing memorial events for a Tamil Tiger leader who died 36 years ago in a non-violent struggle, have returned empty handed.

The then prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was made to sit outside for 25 minutes when he went to the Defence Ministry to attend the National Security Council meeting after the Easter Sunday attacks, said UNP MP Wajira Abeywardena.

The then law and order minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara had been informed, both orally and in writing, by the head of state intelligence at the time about Zahran Hashim in 2018, SLPP MP Sarath Weerasekara said.

The government has been accused of attempting to police the internet via the online safety bill that has been approved by the cabinet and gazetted.