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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that despite the earlier appeal of Mr. R.K.L.G. Dingiri Banda to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, nothing has yet been ...

In recent weeks some senior politicians from the government of Sri Lanka have tried to blame the increase in crime on the National Police Commission (NPC). In fact no link between the NPC and the incr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Harshana Tharindu Wijegunawardena, an 11-year-old student (grade 6) at St. John’s College in Panadura, has been su...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that A G Ravindra (26) was assaulted and illegally detained again on 23 July 2004 by the Katupota police for making a co...

This week, the National Police Commission (NPC) of Sri Lanka made the following welcome announcements: That disciplinary control of all police officers except the Inspector General of Police (IGP), in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mount Lavinia police severely assaulted numerous Bata Shoe Company workers in Colombo on 12 August 2004, to break u...

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that yet another instance of child torture has been committed within a Sri Lankan police station. Two boys, 14 an...

Men illegally arrested and tortured by Matale Police, and falsely charged with stealing money SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest; torture; false charges ————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the mysterious death of 14-year-old boy R.M. Salinda Probashana allegedly on 23 June 2004. He was missing after he...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that on 26 July 2004 the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka awarded one million rupees to the wife and three children of Mr. Lamah...

The attempted rape yesterday of a High Court judge in Sri Lanka indicates the extent to which the rule of law has collapsed in the country; a circumstance towards which the Asian Human Rights Commissi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of a 16-year-old student, Sahan Tharaka, by his teachers and the Assistant Principal of hi...

Following letter was handed over to the Attorney General, Inspector General of Police, National Human Rights Commission and National police Commission by a Special Representative, Mr. Ali Saleem sent ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the illegal arrest and torture of 24 year-old Halneththi Susil Indrajith Silva by the Paiyagala Police. Silva was ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an another torture case from Welawa, Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, a young man named Nanumuralage Roshan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a 16-year-old boy named Balawedage Sahan Tharaka was severely assaulted by his teachers on 19-20 July 2004 and has been wa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the case of Chamila Bandara, a 17-year-old boy who suffered from serious injuries due to being hung and beaten at t...

During the last two weeks there were two occasions in which victims of very serious acts of torture sought protection from the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka claiming that they were facing...

In the Sunday Leader of July 17 under the caption ‘Police Commission Blame IGP for Inaction’ by Shenan Moses, there appear several comments relating to the Constitutional powers of the National Po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the illegal arrest and assault of Mrs. M. Piyawathi by the Baduraliya Police on 31 May 2004. After the arrest, she was ta...