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The Free Media Movement (FMM) is shocked and outraged at the brutal assault of former TNL News Director and currently Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) employee Namal Perera and a friend this evening (...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 27 June 2008 SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM press release: State media level dangerous allegation Free Media Movement exp...

Mr. Elmore Perera, a 74-year-old lawyer who has devoted most of his time to public interest litigation was suspended yesterday, 26th June from his practice for seven years by the Supreme Court of Sri ...

June 26th was the United Nation’s Day in . As far as Sri Lanka is concerned the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights did nothing to commemorate this day. Instead the statements from ...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 25 June 2008 Police recently labeled by government as “treacherous”; its editor continually threatened SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) –...

(Hong Kong, June 27, 2008) Several human rights organisations held meetings and other activities to highlight the problem of torture and the sufferings of the torture victims in several locations in S...

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Torture is a way of life at all police stations in Sri Lanka, whether the alleged crimes inve...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four members of a family received death threat by four men allegedly hired by police on 23 June 2008. It is reporte...

(Hong Kong, June 23, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today wrote to the Sri Lankan authorities to provide protection to a family facing death threats to force them to withdraw their pet...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a copy of a petition written by 92 lawyers practicing in Kandy complaining of a serious obstacle to their practice. Furthermore, the right of liti...

Appointments to the Foreign Service are a subject of debate in Sri Lanka at various levels. A series of articles published in media, particularly by former reputed diplomats, have raised many vital is...

The government’s response to human rights violations in Sri Lanka, such as torture, extrajudicial killings and attacks on media personnel is that they are definitely concerned about it, but are unabl...

SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 12 June 2008 joint media release by FMM and four other organisations: Head of State Media calls for journalist’s ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Kandy Police Station has failed to take proper and prompt action into the complaint involving the sexual abuse ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim has suffered hearing loss after having been severely assaulted by Excise Officers on 17 May 2008. Further...

FMM, independent media targets of slander campaign, incitement to violence by Defence Ministry SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo 5 June 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka – The Free Media Movemen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a boy, who had been previously beaten by his teacher, was taken to a hospital for his injuries after having been beaten on...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man has been continuously detained without any charge after having been illegally arrested on 31 May 2008. The victim...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two brothers were arbitrarily arrested on suspicion of being terrorists without any concrete evidence in the middle...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that five men had been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by the Kataragama police on 1 May 2008. One of the victims was admitted ...