Sri Lankan Member of Parliament Mujibur Rahman from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has alleged that over 80 government ministers and parliamentarians are planning to flee the country on September 21, the date of the upcoming presidential election, over fears of a massive defeat.

Sri Lanka police have launched an investigation into a wedding pre-shoot, after a couple had taken photos inside the Sri Dalada Maligawa, angering the island’s Sinhala Buddhists. 

Sri Lankan police have arrested a Tamil school principal in Mullaitivu for photographing his ballot after voting for the Tamil common candidate.

A Sri Lankan government minister, Chamara Sampath Dassanayake, forcibly entered a police station in Badulla and engaged in a verbal altercation with officers, ultimately forcing them to release 34 government supporters who had been detained over violating election laws. 

British Tamils demanded a boycott of the Sri Lankan cricket team on Sunday, as they demonstrated outside the Oval as Sri Lanka played England in London. 

 

The Sri Lankan police in Maruthankerny, Jaffna, obstructed Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) members, including Selvarajah Kajendren MP, as they campaigned for a boycott of Sri Lanka's presidential elections. 

More human skeletal remains have been found at a former High Security Zone (HSZ) in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, in yet another mass grave on the island. The recent findings are part of the same remains that were initially unearthed in July this year, at the first roundabout after entering the Colombo Port from Chaithya Road in Colombo. The old post office and Sri Lanka’s naval base are also located in the same area.

The 28th anniversary of Krishanthi Kumarasamy's gang rape and murder by Sri Lankan soldiers was commemorated at Chemmani on Saturday.

UN High Commissioner Volker Türk urged Sri Lanka to address the "root causes of the conflict" to advance accountability and reconciliation whilst also calling on member states to take action through their own domestic systems and through the international fora.