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[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE X: Prisoners rights group CPRP confirms the death of another inmate, Dinesh Rashmika, transferred to Angunakolapelessa prison in southern Sri Lanka, while a second victim held at the same facility is reportedly battling for his life in the ICU at Hambantota hospital.

[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE IX: The total death toll of Sri Lanka's deadly prison clash rose to 30 as another prison guard died on Wednesday (8) while being treated at Colombo National Hospital. At least 22 inmates and 8 prison officers have died following the skirmish that broke out on Sunday (5).

[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE VII: As midnight passes on the west coast of Sri Lanka on Tuesday (7), desperate relatives of prisoners still await news of their loved ones, outside the mortuary of District General Hospital in Negombo.

[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE V:The death toll in Sri Lanka prison violence rises to 28 with an inmate transferred to Welikada prison from Negombo being killed allegedly in revenge by prison guards. Rights group CPRP says slain Avishka was among 21 brutally tortured inmates admitted to prison hospital.

[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE IV: Death toll from Sri Lanka's prison massacre rises to 27 as another inmate succumbs to his injuries while being treated at District General hospital in Negombo on Tuesday (7). The total number of casualties include 20 prisoners & 7 prison officers.

[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE III: 100s of relatives of the prisoners, who are worried for the lives of their family members, have gathered outside the Negombo prison NOW, demanding to know whereabouts of the surviving inmates. | 📹 © Luxman Warnakulasuriya / JDS

[JDS @JDSLanka]

At least 18 inmates and 6 prison officers have died following a deadly clash that broke out in a Prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka on Sunday (05) while 78 wounded have been admitted to Negombo and Colombo government hospitals. AWAIT MORE DETAILS....

[JDS @JDSLanka]

PEN International raises concern over Sri Lanka using national security, customs & public order provisions to censor literary & journalistic works and calls on authorities to release all remaining copies of P. Theepachelvan's books. @pen_int @H0R0 https://t.co/bpx4SDSecr

[JDS @JDSLanka]

Phase 3 / Day 32:
During the excavations at Chemmani mass grave on Tuesday (23), no additional skeletal remains were identified, leaving the total number of human skeletons at 412. The work has been temporarily paused & scheduled to be resumed on July 15. | 📷 @kumanan93

[JDS @JDSLanka]

Phase 3 / Day 31:
The total number of skeletons identified at Sri Lanka's largest mass grave in Chemmani surged to 412 on Monday (22), following the discovery of 7 more skeletal remains by the forensic team working under Prof. Raj Somadeva.| 📷 �� Sumithi Thangarasa

[Kumanan @kumanan93]

Chemmani Identified as Sri Lanka’s Largest Mass Grave with the Highest Number of Human Skeletons Identified

Chemmani Mass Grave Excavation – Phase 3, Day 27

Today, 14 more human skeletons were identified at the Chemmani Mass Grave excavation site.

With these latest findings, a total of 380 human skeletons have been identified across all three phases of the excavation, while 362 human skeletons have been fully exhumed.

With 380 human skeletons identified, the Chemmani Mass Grave now records the highest number of human skeletons identified at a mass grave site in Sri Lanka, surpassing the Mannar Sathosa Mass Grave, where 376 human skeletons were identified.

#ChemmaniMassGrave

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

we are not horrified enough by the direct and systemic violence that enables 380 (likely +) people - men, women and children - to be murdered and buried like this. Chemmani is now the site of the largest mass grave on the island. Accountability now! #SriLanka

[JDS @JDSLanka]

Phase 3 / Day 27
As 14 more bodies were discovered from the Jaffna mass burial site by the forensic team led by Prof. Raj Somadeva on Wednesday (17), Chemmani-Siththupaththi has now become the LARGEST MASS GRAVE ever found in the island, with 380 bodies. | 📷 @kumanan93

[JDS @JDSLanka]

UPDATE: Chavakachcheri Magistrate, on Friday (12), granted bail to Tamil rapper Ganeskumar Sangeethsan after police informed that Sri Lanka's Attorney General has instructed to charge him for "sedition" under section 120 of the Penal Code, instead of Prevention of Terrorism Act.

[ITJP @itjpsl]

EVENT: Decades Without Justice - Sri Lanka’s Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict

Join Yasmin Sooka, ITJP’s Executive Director, in conversation with the Head of the OHCHR Sri Lanka Accountability Project at the UN, Johann Soufi @jsoufi , and a human rights defender from Sri Lanka, where they will be discussing the issue of conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka.

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube on the 17th of June, 14:30 Geneva/ 18:00 Sri Lanka.

Livestream link: https://t.co/QWH4jx0HZc

[JDS @JDSLanka]

Phase 3 / Day 20:
9 more skeletons, including those of 8 children, were exhumed at Chemmani mass grave site today, bringing the total number to 327, as the excavation led by Prof. Raj Somadeva continues under the supervision of Jaffna Magistrates' Court. | 📷@kumanan93

[JDS @JDSLanka]

Social activists, trade unionists & members of clergy staged a protest in front of Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on Wednesday, demanding release of Tamil rapper, Ganeskumar Sangeethan & repeal of draconian terror law, PTA. | 📹 ©Luxman Warnakulasuriya/ JDS

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

one week to ‘A Volatile Picture’ https://t.co/3sAtl1O8pC | https://t.co/Oj81FgrcRH 🙏🏽🥹

[Awantha Artigala @awanthaartigala]

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