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COLOMBO — Sri Lankan investigators have obtained legal authority to detain Suresh Sallay, the former Director of the State Intelligence Service, for up to 90 days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), marking the most high-profile arrest in the nearly seven-year investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. Sallay, a retired Major General, was en route to his office at the Pathfinder Foundation in Colombo when officers from the Criminal Investigation Department intercepted and arre

JAFFNA, SRI LANKA — When a prominent doctor in the Northern Province set out to organise a community programme through his professional civil society network, he expected the usual obstacles: bureaucratic delays, funding constraints, and coordination challenges between departments. What he encountered instead was something entirely different. According to multiple credible sources who spoke with Jaffna Monitor on condition of anonymity, fearing professional consequences, the doctor was told tha

Representatives of Sri Lanka's historically marginalised plantation Tamil community have urged the European Union to ensure that the country's continued access to preferential trade benefits under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) is tied to measurable progress on land rights, housing equity, and labour protections in estate regions. The appeal came during a meeting in Colombo this week between leaders of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) and a visiting delegation from the Eu