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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a man and false charges being made against him and his family members by the Kolonne po...

Four human rights defenders associated with a human rights organisation, Right to Life, based in Sri Lanka, have been deprived of their right to engage in peaceful activities by a permanent injunction...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statemen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police allegedly assaulted two men, which caused that one’s tooth to be broken, and detained them in Ahangama...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the authorities at the Negombo Base Hospital have allegedly harassed a women since she reported a suspicious incide...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-044-2008 February 21, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: A fatal blow to Sri Lanka’s Bribery Commission While the 17th Amendment to t...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-041-2008 February 19, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Lessons to be learned from Pakistan’s secular forces The authoritarianism of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is aggrieved to share the news of the continuing extrajudicial killings of civilian men, women and even children in Sri Lanka. A claymore mine ta...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture, by the Police, of a 16-year-old boy by the Sooriyawewa police on 20 January 2008 in Sri L...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a seven-year-old boy has been deprived of his education due to a malfunction of the schooling system since 1 Novemb...

Dear friends, The  Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mirihana Special Investigation Unit arbitrarily arrested and detained a man on 15 January 2008 in Sri Lanka. On t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two Sri Lankans and one Indian were sentenced to death by the High Court of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on 11 June 2007....

From all around Sri Lanka there are constant reports of widespread thieving in the country, particularly around suburban town centres. This has gone so far as to affect even the dressing habits of wom...

Although the Independence Day has passed all the people of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and others alike are more worried than ever about the future of independence, meaning the future of dem...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a man by the Tissamaharama police on 29 December 2007. The police severely assaulted him before...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Press release 29 January 2008 SRI LANKA IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS AND ACTION BY MINISTERS ENDANGER JOURNALISTS Reporters Without Borders appealed toda...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 28 January 2008 High government official advocates censorship, SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo **For further information on the Mervyn Silva incident, see IFEX alert...

(Hong Kong, January 29, 2008) A Sri Lankan police witness who went back on previous evidence given in court concerning the killing of a torture victim in Colombo was on Friday himself put in custody. ...

Joint Statement Today the ravages of the ethnic conflict are taking centre stage in the country, and the absence of good governance in general is marked. In this context, the agreement among the three...

On February 4, Sri Lanka will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its independence from the British colonial empire. There is hardly any mood to celebrate in the country, however. Beset by enormous econ...