3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (585+ words) The old establishment elites have opposed Namal’s arrest. They want to preserve a system where one of their own is not jailed for corruption. Sri Lanka Podujana Party parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa waves to his supporters in the Tissamaharama electorate of…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (656+ words) Both Tashiev’s lawyers and the prosecutors filed appeals after the July verdict, the former seeking complete acquittal and the latter harsher sentencing. Neither has gotten what they asked for. When the trial of the former head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1152+ words) In late August, BBC Uzbek broke the news that an Uzbek professor working in Kazakhstan had been arrested nearly two months prior on allegations of espionage. Very little is known about the case of Dr. Ikboljon Qoraboyev, a 46-year-old international…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (647+ words) A law that cannot turn intelligence into evidence will reproduce the central weakness of the Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1979, regardless of how much power it gives the state. Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has approved a bill to replace the Prevention…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1748+ words) Soldiers told survivors that the massacre in Byain Phyu was retaliation for the defeat and casualties the military suffered at the hands of the Arakan Army in the Battle for Kyauktaw. Survivors of the 2024 massacre in Byain Phyu village sit…...