Sinnarasa Siventhiran, a government school teacher in Kilinochchi, has been summoned by the Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Department (TID), in an entirely Sinhala language notice, to its head office in Colombo for an investigation. 

Siventhiran has launched an official complaint with the Human Rights Commission against the summon contending that he has committed no crimes and the summon is an act of intimidation to his normal course of life. 

Peaceful demonstrations calling on the Sri Lankan government to sever ties with the Myanmar military junta were held by Tamils in Mannar and Batticaloa last week. 

Organised by the North-East Coordinating Committee, the march was joined by human rights activists, civil society forums, people affected by the war and the general public from the North-East. 

In Batticaloa, people and institutional representatives from the surrounding districts of Trincomalee and Ampara also congregated in the Gandhi Park in the district. 

We explore figures from the early decades of the Tamil struggle by animating and bringing to life photographs taken throughout the decades.

Using the ‘Deep Nostalgia’ feature, developed by the genealogy platform MyHeritage, the animated photographs offers a chance to see some of the Tamil struggle’s most memorable figures and moments in a new form.

For many of these figures, no video footage of them exists.

<p>Human Rights Watch called on the Sri Lankan government to immediately withdraw a recent order that "allows two-years of detention without trial for causing religious, racial, or communal disharmony," in a statement this week.&nbsp;</p> <p>The regulation which expands on the "draconian and abusive" Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) "will&nbsp;allow the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to more easily target religious and racial minorities, in violation of their basic rights," the rights group stated.&nbsp;</p> <blockquote><p>

Speaking at the 46^th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Oakland Institute states that it is the international community’s “immediate obligation” to “monitor, protect, and promote human rights of ethnic Tamil and Muslim communities” in Sri Lanka.

In a joint statement, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organisation established by the mothers of children kidnapped and “illegally adopted” during the Argentine dictatorship, urged the UN Human Rights Council to pass the draft resolution on Sri Lanka.

^{Photograph: US and Chinese delegations in Alaska this month.}

Earlier this month the United States and China publicly clashed, capturing global attention as the first face-to-face talks between the two superpowers since the Biden administration came into power, descended into a chaotic opening day. 

The British High Court has handed their ruling in support of former Sri Lankan defence attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, who has appealed his conviction of breaching section 4A of the Public Order Act by making a cut-throat gesture at peace Tamil demonstrators outside Sri Lanka’s embassy.

In their ruling, Sir Julian Flaux C and Mrs Justice McGowan recognised the criminal behaviour of the Sri Lankan Brigadier, however, upheld his claim of diplomatic immunity.

In a bi-partisan statement addressed to the US Secretary of State, 9 members of the US Congress have called upon their government to “actively seek support” for the passage of the current UN resolution as well as to ensure that “accountability and institutional reform in Sri Lanka” remains “a priority on the international stage”.