
Sri Lankan Migrant Delays Deportation Due to ‘Depression’
A UK court orders a fresh asylum hearing after an appeal on mental health grounds wins.

A UK court orders a fresh asylum hearing after an appeal on mental health grounds wins.

The policies that have provoked these protests differ, but there is a common conviction driving the backlash: the elites imposing these agendas do not and will not suffer the consequences of their own policies.

The arrest of trade union leader Joseph Stalin led to large scale protests in Sri Lanka. UN special rapporteur on human rights, Mary Lawler, called the arrest “disturbing” and said Stalin “must be supported, not punished.”

While Sri Lankans had hoped that the removal of Rajapaksa from office would be a first step to turn around the collapsed economy, negotiations with the World Bank and IMF haven’t yet been successful. Instead, protesters are being persecuted.

Images of Sri Lankan protesters storming the presidential palace in Colombo have gone viral on the Internet, and President Rajapaksa has abdicated. But will his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe be able to bring back peace and stability to Sri Lanka?

The cardinal’s appeal comes after the country’s Parliament Select Committee released a report that suggested high-level government officials had allowed the country’s Christian minority community to be targeted in a string of terrorist bombings on Easter Sunday in 2019.