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The year 2007 will be remembered as a year in which brought out increasingly belligerent responses from ruling elites across Asia. It is certain that throughout the region more and more people are res...

A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts. The pronouncement of the Sri Lankan government that i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that further list of extrajudicial killings and disappearances for the month of November 2007 have been reported in Sri Lan...

The attack on the printing press of the Sunday Leader as well as the very manner in which the attack was carried out, comes as no surprise to anyone who has observed the ease with which any form of vi...

National Peace Council of Sri Lanka 12/14 Purana Vihara Road Colombo 6 Tel:  2818344, 2854127, 2819064 Tel/Fax:2819064 E Mail:  npc@sltnet.lk Internet:  www.peace-srilanka.org 22.11.07 Media Rele...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man by Kalutara North police on 12 November 2007. He lodged a complaint ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-274-2007 November 22, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: One law for the judge and another for the witness – third anniversary of Gerald Perera&...

Reporters Without Borders condemns an arson attack early today on the printing press of the Sunday Leader media group, which is located in a high security area outside Colombo. About 15 gunmen that st...

Dear friends, Further to our recent update on the list of extrajudicial killings, another list of disappearances of 53 persons for the month of October 2007 has been reported in Sri Lanka. Despite rep...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding medical negligence in regard of a woman who has now been in intensive care after caesarian operation on 26 Jul...

Leader Publications printing house set FMM reports with outrage that unidentified gang set fire to one of the major newspaper printing houses early this morning (21st Nov 2007). Printing press of the ...

General situation Trincomalee remains heavily militarized and tense.  In the short stretch of around 85km between Habarana and Trincomalee, the bus I traveled was stopped at five checkpoints, where w...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased that the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has published its view in the case of Lieutenant Dingiri Banda after he claimed that he was tortured...

(Hong Kong, November 19, 2007 Sr. Amithreni, a Tamil Catholic nun has sought assistance from the state authorities and human rights groups against threats of abduction as she has received many threate...

We reproduce below the final in the series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced...

We reproduce below the fourth in a series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources regarding a list of extrajudicial killings of 53 persons solely for the single month of October 20...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a man and the injury of his son due to an accident that occurred on 7 September 2007 in Sri Lanka...

Presentation at the International Human Rights Colloquium at San Paulo organised by CONECTAS from 3rd to 8th November by: Basil Fernando Executive Director of the Asian Human Rights Commission This is...

We reproduce below the third of a series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced b...