Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Amnesty International and other human rights organizations like Women for Peace [6] launched a sustained campaign to pressure the Sri Lankan government to arrest and prosecute the soldiers. Six soldiers who were directly involved in the raping were sentenced to death by the court of the government of Sri Lanka.
National List: 30 October 1999: 86 Heart failure [36] Nadarajah Atputharajah: EPDP: Jaffna: 2 November 1999: 36 Assassinated [37] C. V. Gunaratne: PA: Colombo: 7 June 2000: Assassinated [38] M. Sivasithamparam: TNA: National List: 5 June 2002 [39] 78 Lakshman Kadirgamar: UPFA: National List: 12 August 2005: 73 Assassinated [40] Joseph ...
The death penalty has a long history in Sri Lanka. The British restricted the death penalty after they took control of the island in 1815 to the crimes of murder and "waging war against the King." After independence, then Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike abolished capital punishment in 1956.
The first woman representative was Adeline Molamure, elected to the State Council, daughter of J. H. Meedeniya and wife of Alfred Francis Molamure, both State Councillors. 60 women have served in the legislature of Sri Lanka, including 13 who are currently serving, constituting over 5% of all current Members.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Rizana Nafeek (Sinhala: රිසානා නෆීක්, Tamil: ரிசானா நபீக்; 4 February 1988 – 9 January 2013) was a Sri Lankan woman convicted and subsequently executed in Saudi Arabia for the murder of four-month-old Naif al-Quthaibi.
Wijikala Nanthan and Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon were aged 24 and 22 years when they arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in Mannar and accused of being members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Wijikala who was pregnant, her husband, Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon and her child were arrested at 11.00 PM and allegedly tortured in custody.
Minister of Child Development and Women's Affairs Sunethra Ranasinghe: Minister of Women's Affairs and Teaching Hospitals: 1985: Renuka Menike Herath: Minister of Health and Women's Affairs: 1989: Chandra Karunaratne: Minister of State of Women's Affairs: 1990: Srimani Athulathmudali: Minister of Transport, Highways, Environment and Women's ...