The attack on the Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) Manjula Thilekaratne on Sunday (7) in Mt. Lavinia has been taken into account by international human rights bodies like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Article 19.
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International human rights bodies concerned about attack on JSC Secretary
- Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:12
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Hudson gets a shot from Nirmal
- Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:10
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Head of the Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA), Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri has reportedly given a witty response Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) Chairman, Hudson Samarasinghe on the 9th morning.
The attacks on the judiciary are the culmination of a systematic effort to intimidate - CPA
- Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:03
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CPA strongly condemns the assault on the Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), Mr. Manjula Tillakeratne on 7th October and demands an immediate end to intimidation and physical violence against the judiciary and all other dissenting voices.
Will FUTA lose the game?
- Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:19
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"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down." -- Frederick Douglass (1860 speech in Boston)
