Welikada Prison

• India Assures Sentenced Fishermen of Seeking Early Release

  India's High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Yash Sinha on Tuesday met the five Indian fishermen sentenced to death at Colombo's Welikada prison and assured them that the Indian government will make all efforts to secure their early release and repatriation.

• Sri Lanka troops accused of jail 'massacre'

  Sri Lanka's main opposition party Sunday demanded an independent inquiry into a prison riot that left 27 convicts dead, alleging many were shot by security forces in a cold-blooded "massacre".

• Prison gunbattle stuns Sri Lanka capital

  A bullet-riddled taxi and a bloodstained road were mute testimony on Saturday to Sri Lanka's worst prison riot in three decades in which 27 people died and 43 were injured in an overnight gunbattle.

• Sri Lanka prison riot toll rises to 27: minister

  Sri Lankan troops found 11 bodies of convicts Saturday raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to 27, prisons minister said.

• Sri Lankan war-hero spending nights in jail

  Sri Lanka's war-hero Sarath Fonseka, who once commanded his troops against the LTTE, has been lodged in a solitary cell where he sleeps on a mat on the cement floor, attired in ill-fitting prison clothes.Jailed on corruption charges, Fonseka, who was transferred from his detention centre on Thursday after President Mahinda Rajapaksa put his seal on...