COI Report March 2012 - UK Border Agency - Home Office

7 MARCH 2012 SRI LANKA
Latest News
EVENTS IN SRI LANKA FROM 4 FEBRUARY TO 2 MARCH 2012
The Latest News provides a non-exhaustive selection of significant events between 4
February and 2 March 2012. Further information may also be available from the list of
useful sources below.
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2 March Introducing her annual report at the UN Human Rights Council 19th Session,
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomed the
publication by the Government of Sri Lanka of its Lessons Learned and
Reconciliation Commission report in December 2011. She observed: ―While the
report falls short of the comprehensive accountability process recommended by
the Secretary-General‘s Panel of Experts, it does make important
recommendations. I encourage the Government to engage with the Special
Procedures and with my Office on follow up to the report. I also hope the
Council will discuss these important reports.‖
Human Rights Council 19th Session United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights Introduction of Annual Report 2011, 2
March 2012
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Human%20Rights%20Coun
cil%2019th%20Session.pdf
Date accessed 5 March 2012
29 February A group of 52 enforced returnees from the UK, many of whom were failed
asylum seekers, arrived in Colombo on a charter flight.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
Letter from the British High Commission in Colombo, 1 March 2012, Annex E
Official website of the Government of Sri Lanka
Failed asylum seekers arrived in the country, 1 March 2012
http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca201203/20120301failed_
asylum_seekers_arrived_country.htm
28 February Reporters sans frontières (Reporters without Borders) called on the ―United
Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session on 27 February, to
pass a resolution condemning the Sri Lankan government‘s violations of
freedom of information and to demand an end to threats and violence against
news media and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka‖.
Reporters sans frontières
With media gagged or threatened, no progress for freedom of information, 28
February 2012
http://en.rsf.org/sri-lanka-with-media-gagged-or-threatened-no-28-02-
2012,41946.html
Date accessed 29 February 2012
The main text of this COI Report contains the most up to date publicly available information as at 3 February 2012.
Further brief information on recent events and reports has been provided in the Latest News section
to 2 March 2012.
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