JAFFNA, Sri Lanka —  A Sri Lankan Tamil man who spent nearly five years in British custody on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, died in Eswatini on Sept. 13 in an apparent suicide, according to local news reports and his family. Britain had sent him there months earlier under an agreement with the Eswatini government that provided for him to live in the country permanently — in what appears to have been the first documented case of a person granted international protection by a

By Aruliniyan Mahalingam JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — The sentences had just been read: up to 260 years in prison. As they were led out of the Colombo High Court complex, two men convicted over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings raised their index fingers toward the sky. In Sri Lanka, that gesture is tied to one man, Zahran Hashim, the preacher who led the attacks. One of the two was Mohamed Sariboo Adam Lebbe, known as Gafoor Mama. Investigators say he led the killing of two police constables five month

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Former detainees at a secret underground facility inside the Trincomalee Naval Base told investigators that two women sailors helped guard and question prisoners there, and that one of them ordered a detainee to strip and masturbate while she watched, according to police reports filed in a Sri Lankan court. The two women, retired petty officers Kodagoda Hewa Vitharana Deepika Sandamali and Aruni Dinusha Kaus, were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department on Sept. 20