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The United Nations Human Rights Committee’s latest view issued in July 2008 on a communication filed by a Sri Lankan against the state of Sri Lanka holds the state to have violated article 6 of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police in Sri Lanka have allegedly ill- treated and threatened a man with imposition of false charges  dating from...

People of conscience are perturbed that the current war in the LTTE occupied Vanni places the majority of civilians at tremendous risk. Unarmed and trapped in this war zone, large numbers of civilians...

In our statement, SRI LANKA: Permanent loss of sight in one eye due to cruel and inhuman treatment, (http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2008statements/1632/) we earlier reported the permane...

At the last Human Rights Council session a spokesman for Sri Lanka suggested to the United Kingdom that it may consider holding a referendum for having a written constitution. One wonders whether the ...

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Sri Lankan government to release J. S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist who has been held since March. A government minister has just said he is charged with te...

Amongst the few great achievements of human kind, the establishment of the idea and the practice of fair trial is one of the best examples of civilisation’s struggle against barbarism. Centuries of ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Free Media Movement. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from the Free Media Move...

Two inquiries into crimes reported recently reveal the absurdities of policing in Sri Lanka. One is the investigation by the Bribery Commission for an alleged act of corruption by way of undeclared as...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Head Quarter’s Inspector allegedly assaulted a principal and a teacher on 7 July 2008. It is reported that ...

IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community ALERT – SRI LANKA 6 August 2008 Newspaper pressured to cancel defence columns by army commander SOURCE: Free Media Moveme...

What is silly and what is cruel may be relative. However, what Sarath Kumara Naidos, his wife, Sriyani, his mother, Asilin, his sister, Mangalike, her husband, Neil and his mother, Nandawathie are goi...

Hong Kong: August 5, 2008 We are pleased that Prof. Wijesinhe, the Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process, has apologised for his statement dated 5th August, ‘Furthe...

A Press Release from the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: A further false report from the ‘Peace Secretariat’ We call upon all those who have received the aforementioned sta...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 30 July 2008 FMM concerned over army commander’s justification of recent attacks against journalists SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The fol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Pitabaddara police allegedly severely assaulted a young man after arresting him during which time they allowed ...

A 50 –year-old residential area, home to about 800 families is being demolished in central Colombo. The demolition is taking place in the national security style and is being pursued by the Ministry ...

A young man is now in the Colombo Eye Hospital having permanently lost his sight in one eye due to acid being thrown in his face while he was in police custody. The police, acting in connivance with a...

The Asian Human Rights Commission today wrote to the UN Special Rapporteur against Torture regarding a case of torture and illegal dentetion for seven days at the Moratuwa Police Station which also fi...

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2008)  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports a petition seeking the suspension of a levy, not only for new but for existing contracts of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH...