Tag: human rights

Seven years later, Easter Sunday attack verdict brings long-awaited convictions

Big Story CIR Web Editor -
Speed Read Ending a five-year trial, a Colombo High Court trial-at-bar has convicted 15 of 24 men accused of being...

A Year After Nepal’s Uprising, Self-Immolations Test the State’s Promise of Change

South Asia CIR Web Editor -
Five people set themselves on fire in Nepal in July. Some are now reading the deaths as political in...

How Justice Was Derailed After the Muttur Massacre

FOCUS CIR Web Editor -
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — It was around 4:15 in the afternoon of Aug. 4, 2006. The men who came through...

Too many people, too little justice lead to prison crisis in Sri Lanka

FOCUS CIR Web Editor -
Speed Read Sri Lanka's prisons hold nearly three times their intended capacity, with some facilities operating at up to 400%...