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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest under fabricated charge of an uncle and grandfather of a 3-year-old child who was knocked...
The Asian Human Rights Commission sent an Urgent Appeal on February 26, 2007 (UA-063-2007) to several government authorities to which a reply was received on May 7, 2007 from you as the Additional Sec...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received update information regarding the alleged brutal assault of Mr. Dhanawardena by inmates and trainees of the police training college i...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you about an alleged torture case by police officers of Wattegama Police Station. P.K.W. Wijesinghe was summoned to the polic...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged fabricated charges against Mr. J.D.Jayatilaka and his wife which were instigated in from 2001. Mrs. Ja...
(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights wen...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an updated list of persons disappeared in Sri Lanka from the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC), a local human rights organization in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to inform you about an alleged false case against a 65-year-old woman in Wanathayilluwa, by officers from the Excise Department in Puttalam w...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged assault on a young student by a principal in Galle district, Sri Lanka on 4 April 2007. It is repor...
The government has recently announced that police powers will be granted to the military by way of further emergency regulations. When the BBC Sinhala Service questioned the government spokesman, Mini...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the teacher who was charged with assaulting a student has yet to be suspended from his post. In addition, t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source about the alleged torture of a man by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Kalutara divisi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 13 year-old boy has been excessively assaulted by a school teacher in Gedakawela, Ratnapura on 2 March 2007. Desp...
The grave problems regarding the lack of credible investigations into human rights violations in Sri Lanka continues as the government makes threats to expel foreign diplomats who call for such inquir...
The following press release was issued by the Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka on April 17, 2007 – http://www.freemediasrilanka.org/index.php?action=con_news_full&id=523§ion=news (W...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 39 year-old bus driver was allegedly tortured by a traffic police officer near the Waikkala Railway Gate on 11 March 2007. T...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that no criminal charges have not been filed against the police officers of the Moratuwa police station responsible ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the alleged unnecessary amputation of Ms. Citthi Naseeras leg by a surgeon at the Negombo General Hospit...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest, brutal assault and fabrication of charges against three men from Panadura by the pol...
The issue of enforced disappearances is among the highlighted topics of the discussion of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. While about 1,000 disappearances were reported in 2006, already by April, 20...
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