Within 12 hours of reactivating our account, Instagram has inexplicably disabled Tamil Guardian’s page once more, without warning or explanation. 

Since our account was reactivated this morning, we posted one breaking story, which garnered thousands of likes within hours. Our work is crucial and it is being silenced.

China has blacklisted the People's Bank, the second largest state-owned commercial bank in Sri Lanka, over a dispute of payment for imported organic fertiliser. 

Projections across Scotland, including on the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, called for international accountability for the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka ahead of the island’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa visiting the country next week.

“Wanted for Genocide, President of Sri Lanka,” warned the projections which were placed in several locations across Scotland.

Sri Lankan Army chief, Shavendra Silva was greeted by a military guard of honour on his visit to Moscow on 25 October. 

More than 48 hours after our Instagram page was deactivated without warning, we are now finally back online.

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, an advert in The National, a Scottish paper, speaks out against continued deforestation and land grabs undertaken by the Sri Lankan military against Eelam Tamils.

Municipal Councillor V. Parthiban was summoned to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) for a five-hour interrogation regarding the uniforms of a Jaffna Municipal Council task force.

UK and Canadian parliamentarians called on Instagram to reinstate Tamil Guardian's page after it was disabled yesterday without prior warning.  

Elliot Colburn, MP for Carshalton and Wallington and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tamils (APPGT) called the ban "completely unacceptable" and that the APPGT will be making representations to the social media platform. 

British MPs have condemned the UK Foreign Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, following her meeting with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, GL Peiris, in which they discussed "boosting economic ties", "deepening trade and investment links", and "strengthening security ties".

Tamil families of the disappeared staged a protest in Mullaitivu today to mark the 1696th day of their roadside protest while Sri Lankan security forces watched over the demonstration. 

In an act of intimidation, Sri Lankan security force officers took photographs and monitored the families as they demonstrated outside the hut where they began their protest on March 18, 2017. 

In December 2020, Twitter notified the editors of the Tamil Guardian that Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigations Department had formally written to the social media platform, calling for posts by the news website to be removed.

“In the interest of transparency, we are writing to inform you that Twitter has received a request from Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department,” reads an email from Twitter sent on Monday, December 7^th 2020.

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed their concern over Sri Lanka's new Presidential Task Force which is focused on achieving "One Country One Law”, as it may target minority communities on the island. 

This morning Instagram disabled Tamil Guardian’s page without any prior warning or explanation, a move that amounts to a dangerous and unwarranted form of online censorship.