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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on a case of police malpractice and negligence that has led to the theft of a man’s motorcycle parts.  Mr. Fernan...

 including the appointment without delay of Constitutional Council members and NPC Commissioners The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes the commitments made on the 11th of November 2005 by th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the torture of a 14-year-old boy, Dulash Vimukthi Ranasinghe, by his language teacher, ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of 16-year-old, W.K. Nilantha who was taken by two home guards to the Uragaha Police Station and seve...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Seneviratne Goshara Mudiyanselage Upali Nissanka who was arrested, detained and tortured by Su...

The issue of attempted arson to one of the buildings of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka came to be discussed at the 35th Session of the UN Committee against Torture (the Committee) duri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kaluthara Guruge Thilan Suranga Jayasinghe, who was arbitrarily arrested upon false accusations an...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a police sergeant was tortured and subsequently arrested by policemen attached to the Wadduwa police station.  The victim...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Vidhanelage Ajith Wickramage, who was arbitrarily arrested by police officers from the Galewela Po...

The way that justice is administered by the courts in any country directly affects the national spirit. Whether or not the spirit of enthusiasm, energy and cooperation prevails in a particular society...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the o...

That the practice of law is a devastated profession within the country is something all Sri Lankan lawyers will lament about. In fact, lawyers have very little impact when representing their clients, ...

A rather disturbing situation has arisen Sri Lanka in recent weeks. The Inspector General of Police has begun to openly challenge the National Police Commission (NPC), which is a constitutional body c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information stating that the main suspect in the alleged rape incident of a female passenger in transit to Kuwait, at the Bandaranai...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and disturbing case of rape of a 14 year-old girl in the town of Talawakelle.  The young girl was ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the resolution adopted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) to introduce a . BASL appointed a committee comprising a former chief justice and two forme...

SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest and detention; Alleged torture; Post-custodial death; Police misconduct; Impunity; Rule of law ———————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just received information on two cases of inhuman police torture committed separately by the Matara police and Hikkaduwa police.  In the fir...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that a man, Manoj Thalis (26), was severely tortured by policemen attached to the Gokarella polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in ...