The Jaffna Press Club held a memorial event for Tamil journalist Pragas Gnanapragasam who passed away after contracting coronavirus in 2021, aged just 26-years-old. 

A Sri Lankan court issued a restraining order against four members of the Association for the Families of the Disappeared, preventing them from protesting in Vavuniya town on Sunday, in yet another move to supress Tamil protests.

In Batticaloa’s Gandhi Park, an art exhibition unveiled 150 paintings that powerfully conveyed themes of loss, grief, and the relentless search for the disappeared—15 years after the Mullivaikkall genocide.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has officially issued a Telecommunications Service Provider License to Starlink Lanka (Private) Limited, according to an announcement by the President’s Media Division (PMD) on August 13.

Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe has taken control of the Ministry of Justice, Prison Affairs, and Constitutional Reforms, following the resignation of Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, who stepped down from his ministerial role to run in the upcoming Presidential election.

Despite the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the end of the armed conflict, Tamils arriving in Sri Lanka from abroad continue to face harassment by authorities who claim there are links to the LTTE.

A group of Sri Lankan public officials faced strong resistance from Tamil residents as they attempted to illegally occupy hundreds of acres of coastal land for mineral sand mining, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen in the war-affected North-East.

Tamil families of the Disappeared held protests across the North-East today to mark the International Day of the Disappeared. The families called for an internationally led investigation into enforced disappearances, emphasizing that successive governments have failed the Tamil people.

The Sri Lankan government is continuing to persecute Tamil families of the disappeared, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a release this morning.

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