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Campaign to release political prisoners

Sri Lankan army instigates violence against Jaffna SEP members

Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), January 28, 2012

The attack on the SEP is a warning of the police-state measures being prepared by the government against the working class as a whole.

Protest in Jaffna over “disappearances”

Our correspondents, January 24, 2012

Hundreds of Tamils “disappeared” in the months leading up to the end of the island’s civil war in May 2009 and have not been seen since.

SEP campaigns at J’pura University for release of political prisoners

Our correspondents, November 09, 2011

The SEP and ISSE warned that the detention of Tamil youth by the Sri Lankan government is part of a wider assault on the democratic rights of workers and youth.

Sri Lankan SEP campaign to release political prisoners: Plantation detainee and relatives speak to WSWS

M. Vasanthan, October 29, 2011

Political prisoners and their parents in the central plantation areas of Sri Lanka denounced the parliamentary parties and trade unions for doing nothing to free detainees.

SEP launches campaign to release Sri Lankan political prisoners

Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), October 04, 2011

The SEP’s campaign is inseparable from the broader struggle to defend the democratic rights of the working class and rural masses from the attacks of the government.