Ambika Satkunanathan
Ambika Satkunanathan is a human-rights advocate. During her tenure as the commissioner at the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, between 2015 and 2020, she led the first ever national study of prisons undertaken by the commission.

Sri Lanka continues to militarise the state, despite the Rajapaksas’ fall
Repressive legislation such as the Bureau of Rehabilitation Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act follow naturally from the Rajapaksas’ post-war militarisation of Sri Lanka’s North and East
Jul 31, 2023

Prisoners in a pandemic
COVID-19 reveals structural and systemic inequalities in Sri Lanka’s prison system.