The monk is a close associate of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who made him the head of a panel to reform Sri Lanka's legal system to ensure religious harmony in 2021.

Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence, has been jailed. The sentence ...

The monk is a close associate of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who made him the head of a panel to reform Sri Lanka's legal system to ensure religious harmony in 2021. At the time ...

Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has marked its 77th independence anniversary with a military parade, while the country’s newly ...

Today we celebrate the 77th Independence Day.  Independence for the Dominion of Ceylon came on 1948. Since then, Sri ...

The monk is a close associate of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who made him the head of a panel to reform Sri Lanka's legal system to ensure religious harmony in 2021. At the time ...

He was previously jailed last year on a similar charge of disparaging Sri Lanka's minority Muslims, who account for just over about 10 percent of the 22 million population. He was on bail while ...

The monk is a close associate of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who made him the head of a panel to reform Sri Lanka's legal system to ensure religious harmony in 2021. At the time ...

COLOMBO — A court in Sri Lanka jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday, put-ting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the ...