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A man, who alleged that he was severely beaten up by the police after he refused to pay a bribe of three valuable gems, was granted leave to proceed in a fundamental rights application by the Supreme ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of the rape of a 17-year-old girl after her abduction allegedly by a politician on 17 December 2007. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Baduraliya police allegedly fabricated charges against a man and his family members on 8 March 2008 in Sri Lanka. P...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a young man by the Godakawela Police on 7 February 2008 in Sri Lanka. The police allege...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Press release 18 March 2008 Reporters Without Borders today called for an explanation from President Mahinda Rajapakse after the army took control ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault and sexual harassment of a woman allegedly by a man employed in the Divisional Secretary’s o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a man by Kandana police on 6 March 2008 in Sri Lanka. Police allegedly beat him while r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four police officers from the Wanathawilluwa Police Station arrested a farmer from his house and took him away duri...

The last few days saw developments in trade union protests against the attacks on employees of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). Ever since the incident that was provoked by Minister Mervyn...

The cultural heritage of cruelty and repression (Paper 2) **************************** The organisation of pre-modern Sri Lankan society was based on the caste system Basil Fernando These days there a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-PAP-002-2008 March 14, 2008 A Paper by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Caste of mind and the ‘silly season’ (The cultural heritage of cruelty and re...

Reporters without Borders is concerned about the fate of five Tamil journalists arrested by anti-terrorist police in Colombo in the past six days and urges the Sri Lankan authorities to explain why th...

As the Human Rights Council meeting was in session the spokesmen for the Sri Lankan government have been quite busy, judging by the number of statements circulated through the internet that are trying...

CMU STATEMENT President Mahinda Rajapakse’s New Year message to the nation requires consideration in relation to the prospect that he has held out to the people of this country for this year. This is...

Posted on March 9, 2008 by FMM 8th March 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses its concern that number of journalists have being taken in for questioning on 7th and 8th of ...

(Hong Kong, March 11, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission has written to the UN Rapporteur on Torture seeking his intervention regarding several Sri Lankan journalists after receiving reliable inf...

(New York, March 6, 2008) – The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released toda...

International Independent Group of Eminent Persons FOR RELEASE ON 06 MARCH 2008 Colombo, 05 March 2008 REF: IIGEP-PS-005-2008 Contact: IIGEP Public Information Office Colombo Hilton Residence, Suite 7...

The announcement by the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) that they are quitting the Presidential Commission of Inquiry comes as no surprise at all. The surprise is as to why ...

We are forwarding a position paper circulated by Transparency International Sri Lanka on the issue of the removal of the Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery. 28 Fe...