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Protests against the use of torture by law enforcement agencies are becoming more widespread in countries throughout Asia. These are emanating from a growing popular sentiment against torture as an ab...

[RE: UP-37-2004: SRI LANKA: A Kandy coordinator of National Police Commission allegedly cooperates with torture perpetrators; UP-34-2004: Priyankara brutally assaulted and arrested with no access to l...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed by reliable sources that a 25-year-old three-wheel driver has been illegally arrested and tortured by two Police Constables attached t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source that a 26-year-old man was allegedly severely tortured by Sub Inspector Ranaweera of the Pandaura Police, ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2005 AS-63-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission Better management could address Sri Lanka’s delays in justice  That Sri Lanka’s criminal ju...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding two murders and the subsequent violence that took place in Kirioya, Polonnaruwa district on 17 May 2005. It wa...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been made aware of a broadcast by the Sri Lanka Rupawahini Corporation in their regular program Attha Nattha, (Truth and Falsehood) on the evening of June ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the death of a 53-year-old man after allegedly being severely and repeatedly tortured w...

SRI LANKA: Prescribing of Western medicines by Ayurvedic practitioner; over prescribing of medicines; medical neglect ———————————̵...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked to learn about the assassination of a high ranking Sri Lankan military intelligence officer Major Nisam Muthalif today in Colombo. The AHRC condemns...

On 25 October 2000, more than 25 young Tamils at a rehabilitation centre in Bindunuwewa near Bandarawela in the south-central part of the island were attacked and killed by a Sinhalese group.  Who we...

[UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Hospital due to mistaken identity; UP-51-2005: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a w...

The police have begun investigating a case of alleged negligence resulting in a woman’s leg being wrongly amputated at the Negombo Base Hospital in Sri Lanka. They are pursuing the matter under ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault of a 10-year-old pupil by a schoolteacher on 12 May 2005 for not giving a satisfactory ans...

From May 12 to 14, 2005 the Asian Human Rights Commission held a consultation in Hong Kong with a group of forensic and legal professionals to discuss the interplay between forensic science and human ...

Asian Tribune joins the smear campaign against the victim of negligent amputation and In a article, purportedly written by Sunil C. Perera, to the Asian Tribune the author attacks the story of Sitthi ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a man while in police custody at the Rakwana Police Station, Sri Lanka. Helwala Langachcharige Su...

The increase in death threats and intimidation to activists and journalists in Sri Lanka are alarming. In particular, there is concern that the situation may degenerate into that similar to the terror...

In a landmark judgment, the U.N. Human Rights Committee has held that Sri Lanka, as a state party to the Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, violated one of ...

Within the last two weeks alone, the Asian Human Rights Commission has reported on three cases of alleged gross medical negligence in Sri Lanka. First, a 48-year-old mother alleged that her healthy le...