Student leader Wasantha Mudalige, right, holds up his handcuffed hands from inside a prison bus, outside a magistrate’s court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Eranga ...

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s parliament has passed a law that grants the government sweeping powers to regulate social media and online speech, which opposition legislators have said will undermine ...

An anti-government protester holds a placard demanding the release of student leader Wasantha Mudalige outside a magistrate’s court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Credit: AP ...

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers on Friday approved a new legislative bill, endorsed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that will allow the state to confiscate any property or proceeds resulting ...

Thousands of opposition activists rallied near Sri Lanka’s capital to demand that the government fulfill pledges to ease ...

COLOMBO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists ...

A new report from Human Rights Watch documents how the Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act against the minority Tamil and Muslim communities, and to suppress ...

Sri Lanka will pass legislation providing the framework for pension funds to submit their offers for a bond swap program, State Minister for Finance Shehan Semasinghe said in an interview. The ...

(Brussels) – The Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to commit prolonged arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said in a report released ...