President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has appointed retired Judge V.K. Malalgoda as the new Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, according to the President’s Media Division.The other members appointed to the Commission are S.Y.M. Gomes, A.L.A. Azeez, Dr S.S.S.B.D.H. Jayawardena and Professor T. Jayasingam.Their letters of appointment were handed over by Secretary to the President Dr Nandika Sanath Kumanayake at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon (30).

The appointments have been made to fill vacancies following the completion of the terms of office of the previous members of the Human Rights Commission.