Former S Lanka rebels ‘disappear’

Three Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels who took part in a rehabilitation ceremony may have been taken away by the authorities, a rights campaigner says....

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Radio Times poll provokes online battle for Baftas

Fierce opposition to al-Jazeera's Bahrain documentary generates a million votes

This year's Bafta award for the best current affairs television programme, to be awarded later this month, has provoked an international struggle to undermine the content of at least one of the four powerful documentaries on the shortlist – a film about the uprising in Bahrain last spring.

A fortnight ago the Radio Times magazine launched an online poll to allow readers to vote for their...

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Fears for S Lanka Tamil detainees

A key Tamil opposition politician in Sri Lanka says he fears for the safety of dozens of people arrested in a fresh round-up of Tamil Tiger suspects....

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Row over Sri Lanka ‘rebel’ flag

A row breaks out in Sri Lanka over the appearance of a flag associated with defeated Tamil Tiger militants at a May Day rally....

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Sri Lankan diplomat may avoid questioning on war crimes claims

Diplomat facing allegations of crimes against humanity is set to return to Sri Lanka, raising fears he will avoid questioning

The Foreign Office has been warned it is running out of time to take action against a senior London-based Sri Lankan diplomat who is facing allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity.

Last week, the Guardian revealed that an organisation representing the Tamil diaspora was launching legal action against the FCO over its failure to...

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William Hague faces legal action over Sri Lankan diplomat war crimes claim

Tamil group to bring judicial review against foreign secretary over refusal to declare military attache persona non grata

An organisation representing the international Tamil diaspora is taking legal action against William Hague over the Foreign Office's failure to confront a senior Sri Lankan diplomat accused of complicity in crimes against humanity during the final stages of the island's civil war.

The Global Tamil Forum has instructed the law firm Birnberg, Peirce and Partners to bring a...

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Sri Lankan conservationists battle national park highway

Threat to wildlife posed by Chinese-funded road through Wilpattu park is cause celebre in island's postwar tourist boom

As Sri Lankans prepare to celebrate the Sinhala or Buddhist New Year in April, conservationists will be quietly praying that a proposed major road through Wilpattu national park will finally be ruled illegal. Controversially funded by the Chinese government, the road has been the centre of a case sitting with the Sri Lankan supreme court for nearly...

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Arrests at Indian nuclear plant

About 500 people, including several politicians, are arrested at a protest against a nuclear power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu....

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Journalists are ‘traitors’, says Sri Lanka’s state TV

Sri Lanka's state-controlled media has described journalists as "traitors" following the UN human rights council's call for an investigation into the country's alleged abuses during its war against Tamil separatists.

In an attack on Sri Lankan journalists, both at home and in exile, state television accused them of "betraying the motherland."

Although the broadcaster did not name the journalists who had participated in the human rights council sessions, it screened "thinly disguised photographs of them" and said...

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UN adopts S Lanka war resolution

The UN Human Rights Council adopts a resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate alleged abuses during the final phase of war with Tamil rebels....

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