Tamil Nadu politicians called on the Tamil diaspora to mobilize against Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s appearance in Scotland, heading a high-level delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

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A series of mobile digital adverts were placed across the city of Glasgow earlier today, as part of a campaign by Scottish Tamils as Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa visits the city for the UN climate summit COP 26.

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A Tamil man who survived torture by the Sri Lankan security forces before fleeing to Scotland earlier this year, has accused Police Scotland of backing a regime responsible for human rights violations in a piece published in the Sunday Post today.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has doubled down on a directive issued to players not to ‘take the knee’ in support of the Black Lives Matter, despite several other sports team routinely making the gesture including in the current T20 Cricket World Cup.

As a Scottish Tamil campaign for international justice ahead of Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s visit to Glasgow continues at full steam, a curious advert appeared in this weekend’s edition of The Herald.

Tamil politicians from the North-East joined British and Canadian parliamentarians in denouncing Instagram’s censoring of Tamil Guardian’s page. 

Tamil Guardian’s Instagram account, was briefly reinstated on Friday after it was disabled on Wednesday without any prior warning or explanation. 

However, just over 12 hours later, it was disabled again. 

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, an advert both in The Herald and the National, two Scottish papers, speaks out against Sri Lanka's attempt to conceal its record of genocide behind claims of "climate leadership and stewardship".

Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has arrived in Scotland for the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, where he expected to be met by protests.

Mohamed Sulthan, the coordinator of Save the Pearls, has told the Fort Magistrates Court that he was tortured in order to implicate the prominent Muslim human rights lawyer, Hejaaz Hizbullah. 

Sulthan's defence lawyer detailed the names of three Terrorist Investigation Department officers who he alleges undertook the torture. Sulthan was originally arrested under allegations of teaching "extremism" at a Madrasa school and has been detained for 18 months.

Responding to the appointment of former convict and extremist monk, Galagodaaththe Gnanasara, to head the Presidential Task Force on "One country, one law",  the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) expressed shock and dismay on behalf of the Muslim community in Sri Lanka.

On the day 26 years ago, over half a million Tamil men, women and children fled their homes in Jaffna as the Sri Lankan military launched a military offensive to capture the peninsula, under the leadership of then president Chandrika Kumaratunga.

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa departed for Scotland on Saturday, heading a high level delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, where protests are planned to greet him.