TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on Sri Lanka to respect the right of burial of the Muslim community.
News ID: 3474078 Publish Date : 2021/02/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) about Sri Lanka’s policy of enforced cremation of all those confirmed or suspected to have died with COVID, saying it breaches their religious rights and is causing “untold misery”.
News ID: 3473940 Publish Date : 2021/02/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Every few days, Sri Lankan Muslims take to the streets in hopes that their protest will help to change government guidelines and allow them to bury their coronavirus dead.
News ID: 3473611 Publish Date : 2021/01/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Malaysian Muslim organization has called on Sri Lanka to allow the bodies of Muslims who died of COVID-19 to be buried according to the Islamic practice.
News ID: 3471450 Publish Date : 2020/05/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A year after the Easter bombs that killed more than 250 people, Muslims in Sri Lanka fear rising communal tensions, harassment and oppression amid the pandemic lockdown.
News ID: 3471120 Publish Date : 2020/04/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Iranian Cultural Center in Sri Lanka held a Quran recitation contest on the weekend.
News ID: 3470124 Publish Date : 2019/12/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A ceremony was held at the Iranian Cultural Center in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo to celebrate the birthday of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
News ID: 3469848 Publish Date : 2019/11/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A "harsh and dangerous" crackdown on Sri Lankan Muslims following deadly bombings on Easter Sunday poses a major threat to the Indian Ocean nation's peace and security, a think-tank warned.
News ID: 3469517 Publish Date : 2019/09/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Sri Lankan court Sunday banned two ultra-nationalist Buddhist organizations from demonstrating against a major Shia ceremony, the first on the island since the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings.
News ID: 3469310 Publish Date : 2019/09/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A United Nations human rights expert called on Sri Lanka to take urgent action on "hate propaganda targeting Muslim communities" following a spate of deadly attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday.
News ID: 3469260 Publish Date : 2019/08/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sri Lanka's police on Tuesday stepped in to prevent a local council from banning Muslim traders from a weekly fair in another backlash from the devastating Easter attacks claimed by Daesh (ISIL or ISIS).
News ID: 3468840 Publish Date : 2019/06/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims in Sri Lanka say they fear new attacks after a top Buddhist monk called for violence against members of the religious minority, claiming a Muslim doctor had sterilized thousands of Buddhist women.
News ID: 3468814 Publish Date : 2019/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Mohamed Hasan has barely left his home in Colombo since a string of deadly blasts hit Sri Lanka on Sunday, afraid he could be attacked because he is Muslim.
News ID: 3468372 Publish Date : 2019/04/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Islamic Centre Hamburg condemned the brutal killings of Christian worshippers and other people in multiple terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka, stressing that killing and violence have nothing to do with divine religions.
News ID: 3468366 Publish Date : 2019/04/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two extremist groups carried out Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bomb attacks in retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday.
News ID: 3468358 Publish Date : 2019/04/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) strongly condemned the deadly bomb attacks in Sri Lanka.
News ID: 3468346 Publish Date : 2019/04/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A simple Sinhala language translation of the Holy Quran was unveiled at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital, on Sunday.
News ID: 3468248 Publish Date : 2019/04/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Iranian Cultural Center in Sri Lanka has published an article titled “Holy Quran and Human Rights” in the South Asian country.
News ID: 3468047 Publish Date : 2019/03/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday handed a six-year jail term to a Buddhist monk accused of inciting violence against Muslims, holding him guilty of contempt just months after he was convicted of intimidating the wife of a missing journalist.
News ID: 3466513 Publish Date : 2018/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations on Sunday condemned a string of anti-Muslim attacks in Sri Lanka including the burning of mosques and businesses.
News ID: 3465372 Publish Date : 2018/03/12
