Following denials of accepting Myanmar’s military coup, Sri Lanka chaired the 5^th Bay of Bengal Initiative of the Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Co-operation (BIMSTEC) summit which was attended by Myanmar’s military junta.

Canadian Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Michael Chong, and Shadow Minister for International Development for Human Rights, Garnett Genius, have issued a statement demanding that the Canadian government impose Magnitsky sanction on Sri Lankan officials implicated in gross human rights violations and launch an “independent international investigation into allegations of genocide”.

Writing in Just Security, Professor Kate Cronin-Furman details how the recently passed UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution displays the inability and unwillingness of the UNHRC to impose an accountability model on Sri Lanka but also highlights “a genuine desire to grapple with persistent impunity and the worsening human rights situation”.

UK Shadow Minister for International Trade, Gareth Thomas raises concerns over the Home Office’s Country Policy and Information Note (CPIN) on Sri Lanka and its failure to recognise continued torture after 2015.

The former Catholic Bishop of Mannar and lifelong Tamil rights activist, Right Reverend Dr Rayappu Joseph has passed away, aged 80. Notably, Rt. Rev. Joseph used information from local government offices in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts to pinpoint that 146,679 people were unaccounted for following the final stages of the armed conflict in May 2009.

Tamil asylum seekers who were deported from Germany and Switzerland on Tuesday night will be handed to Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the Daily Mirror reported. 

Tamil Makkal Thesiya Kootani leader, C.V. Wigneswaran said that Tamil asylum seekers who were deported to Sri Lanka earlier this week were at the risk of "surveillance, torture and arbitary detention."

Ireland-based human rights organisation, Rohingya Action Ireland (RAI) called on Germany to “immediately halt the deportation of Tamil asylum seekers” and grant a place in the country where Tamils can “rebuild their lives away from fear”, in a letter addressed to the German Ambassador to the UK.   

The Sri Lankan Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) arrested two Tamils in Jaffna on Monday for allegedly “promoting terrorism” and promoting "terrorism-related activities" on their YouTube channel. 

The TID arrested a 36-year-old Tamil man and a 35-year old Tamil woman who managed the YouTube channel and a related website (TubeTamil).   

Police spokesman, DIG Ajit Rohana said that "those channels had promoted LTTE ideology in the cyberspace."

“The YouTube channel and the website had created disharmony among the ethnic groups of Sri Lanka,” he added.