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Previously threatened journalist stalked SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 22 July 2008 FMM press release 22 July 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sri La...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Shanthigara Suresh Kumar, a teacher at the Trinity College of Kandy, was arbitrarily arrested and detained by t...

(Hong Kong, July 23, 2007) On March 11, 2008 Shanthigara Suresh Kumar of 21 A, Kandy Road, Balagolla, a teacher at Trinity College Kandy was illegally arrested and detained. Mr. Shanthigara has compla...

Three lawyers practicing in the courts in Kandy have complained of having received death threats on several occasions as a result of having signed a petition calling for inquiries into the unprofessio...

Government officials assault two “Daily Mirror” journalists, harass Sirasa TV journalist covering home demolitions (FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 19 July 2008 FMM press release: 19 ...

July 22, 2008 Hon. Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights 2, Wijerama Mawatha Colombo 7 SRI LANKA Fax: +94 11 269 3284  E-mail: info@dmhr.gov.lk Dear Mr. Sama...

(As the Criminal Investigation Branch has questioned four representatives from several reputed human rights organisations regarding a pamphlet published on December 10, 2007 calling for the ending of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a 19 year old school boy assaulted and frightened by death threats made by the Principal of his school Sri Dha...

The recent questioning of some representatives of several well known human rights organisations in Sri Lanka about a pamphlet which called for the ending of impunity regarding disappearances raises ma...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a police investigator has told the mother of a boy who was complaining about the beating of her son by a school principal ...

An incident which happened this week was shocking confirmation of the fears repeatedly expressed by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) about threats to the legal system of Sri Lanka. A special p...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) seeks your kind intervention regarding an illegal inquiry and harassment initiated by the Government of Sri Lanka against four reputed human . The facts relati...

Mr. Sarath Kumara Naitos, aged 38 years, was arrested on 5 July 2008 around 12.30pm while he was working at Kesalwatta in a house, in Panadura, Sri Lanka. The arrest was carried out by the officers fr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding illegal arrest and detention of a person named Mr. Sarath Kumara Naitos. The Moratuwa police arrested him on 5...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores a decision by a Sri Lanka court on June 30 to continue the detention without charge of journalist J.S. Tissainayagam and to reject his appeal...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police allegedly ordered parents to pay a bribe of 150000 riels (US$37.5) each if their sons were not to be arrested after t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of H.M. Susantha Herath who was brutally tortured by the Gokarella police on 4 July 2005 (UA-...

The Sri Lanka Press Institution (SLPI) and the Newspaper Publishers Association are offering a reward of Rs. 5 million (Approximately US$ 50,000) for information on the assault on the journalist, Nama...

Attacks on journalists continue unabated despite of massive protests from local and international agencies and despite all sorts of talk by the spokesmen for the government about stopping human rights...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Nationa...