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. 

Large protests at Düsseldorf airport were carried out as crowds demanded that the estimated 100 Tamil asylum seekers who were detained by German authorities be released.

Four detained Tamil asylum seekers from Baden Württemberg, South Germany were released last minute at Düsseldorf airport and sent home by train.  Despite ongoing reports of torture by Sri Lanka’s security forces, 31 Tamil asylum seekers were deported today. 

Jaffna locals successfully thwart Archaeology Department excavation efforts

"Just a few days after the UNHCR meeting, the Sinhala government is showing their true face [...] in the Sinhalisation of the North-East," said Tamil lawyer Sugash Kanagaratnam. https://t.co/ecEWcm8t9w pic.twitter.com/1A3ZNOmGOC