Scores of Sri Lankans, due to have been deported from the UK on a government charter flight on Thursday afternoon, have had their removal orders overturned by high court judges.

A plane chartered by the British government is to deport about 100 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, according to a human rights charity.

Sri Lanka adds three years to a former army chief's jail sentence for "making false allegations" that the defence secretary ordered government forces to commit war crimes.

Sri Lanka's civil war ended with "credible" evidence that war crimes were committed. Now Channel 4 News can reveal mounting evidence that the government is still torturing Tamil prisoners.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report highly critical of the actions of government troops in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war to the UN Human Rights Council.

The Sri Lankan government's inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war is "fundamentally flawed", an Amnesty International investigation finds.

Exclusive: As the Sri Lankan war approached its endgame, 130,000 civilians were trapped along a small strip of beach. An eyewitness recalls the bloodshed that followed and how civilians were targeted.

England take on Sri Lanka amid controversy over alleged war crimes at the end of that country's civil war. But the English cricket authority tells Channel 4 News it's sport, not politics.

Nagendrarajah Suthakaran won a reprieve against his deportation after he tried to kill himself. He speaks exclusively to Jonathan Miller about his fears of being sent back to Sri Lanka.