The High Court sentences journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for publishing articles that caused "racial hatred" and promoted terrorism, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Timeline of events under "Human rights" issue
European nations call unsuccessfully for an independent investigation of alleged war crimes by both sides and unhindered access for aid workers to the more than 300,000 displaced. Instead, the Human Rights Council passed, by 29 votes to 12 (with six abstentions), the resolution that Sri Lanka itself submitted entitled “Assistance to Sri Lanka in the promotion and protection of human rights”.
The Government of Sri Lanka announces a complete victory against the LTTE. Its military forces recaptured all remaining LTTE controlled territories in the Northern Province, including notably Killinochchi (2 January), the Elephant Pass (9 January) and the ultimately the entire district of Mullaitivu (18 May).
The editor of the Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge, is fatally shot in Colombo on his way to work by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles. Wickrematunge was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, but later succumbed to his injuries.
Gunmen armed with grenades attack the offices of MTV, part of the Maharajah Broadcasting Corporation, the largest private television broadcaster in Sri Lanka.
Leader of the breakaway 'Karuna faction', Vinayagamoorthi Muralidaran, alias 'Colonel Karuna' has been “nominated” as a Member of Parliament from the quota of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The European Court of Human Rights gives its judgement in the case of NA v. United Kingdom: the expulsion of the applicant to Colombo would constitute a violation of Article 3, the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment, of the European Convention on Human Rights. In the Court's view, both the assessment of the risk to Tamils of certain profiles and the assessment of whether individual acts of harassment cumulatively amounted to a serious violation of human rights could only be done on an individual basis.
Keith Noyahr, Associate Editor and Defence Correspondent of The Nation weekly newspaper is abducted from his home and returned seriously injured.
Sri Lanka fails to keep its seat on the UN Human Rights Council, following strong lobbying from pressure groups.
In response to the fundamental rights application filed in connection with the mass scale eviction of Tamils from Colombo that took place on the 7 June 2007, the Supreme Court orders that future evictions should not take place unless in accordance with the law and with a judicial order.
The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), established to oversee the government's Commission of Inquiry into serious human rights cases, resigns.
Several hundred Tamils are reported to have been arrested and detained by security forces for questioning following the bomb blasts in Colombo.
According to a Home Office statement, British police and immigration officials arrested Karuna Amman following a joint operation between Britain's new Border and Immigration Agency and London police.
A U.N. investigator, Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture for the U.N. Human Rights Council calls upon the government to take seriously reports of widespread use of torture by security forces in their battle with LTTE along with a list of other recommendations following a week-long visit on an official invitation.
Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in the UK may be at risk of torture if returned to Sri Lanka, according to a landmark ruling by a British tribunal.
