Sri Lanka court blocks state deportation of Tamils
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to stop evicting minority ethnic Tamils from the capital a day after police deported hundreds to the island's war-torn north, a civil rights lawyer said.
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A man is released from prison in Sri Lanka after being held on remand for 50 years without conviction.
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Sri Lanka's telecom networks Monday blocked text messaging on mobile phones as part of security measures for the island's independence day celebrations, the phone operators said.
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Besieged by Tamil   Tiger artillery fire and surrounded by 40,000 troops in what   must be the world's most heavily guarded jail, hard time has   taken on a new meaning for jailbirds in north Sri Lanka.
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Thousands of people living on Sri Lanka's tsunami-battered coasts fled inland after comments by a minister triggered fears that more massive waves were about to hit the island.
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Sri Lankan police defused a big roadside bomb in Colombo on Friday as local and international rights groups slammed the government for rounding up minority ethnic Tamils and deporting them to the war-ravaged north.
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A dispute develops in Sri Lanka over whether the government has given enough aid to tsunami-hit Tamil areas.
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KALMADUNAGAR, Sri Lanka  - Thamalin Thirvakumar and her baby son live in a camp for war-displaced in rebel-held north Sri Lanka. Her husband is stuck across an impassable frontier in territory held by the Sri Lankan army.
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The Sri Lankan government says a wave of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels is undermining confidence in the peace process, which has been stalled since April 2003.
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When disabled Hindu worshipers in the   southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu were blocked from entering   temples with their wheelchairs and crutches, Meenakshi   Balasubramanian knew she had the law on her side.
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Two Indonesians were jailed on Tuesday over a people-smuggling operation to bring 83 Sri Lankans into Australia, court officials said.
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A German court blocks the extradition of a former Nazi SS member wanted over a murder in Denmark.
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Ethnic Tamils living in Britain are being pressured into donating money to support Tiger rebels in their native Sri Lanka, facing harassment if they refuse.
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A district court in the Netherlands has blocked the extradition of an alleged Kurdish rebel leader wanted in Turkey for her suspected role in a series of bombings in the 1990s.
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Malaysia appears to delay the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal foreign workers.
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A Philippine court on Monday barred the country's police and military from arresting working journalists in a case that arose from a row over media access.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's office has interfered with a commission probing civil war rights abuses and murders that include some blamed on state security forces, international observers said on Wednesday.