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SRI LANKA: 7 year old boy illegally detained and tortured by the police 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a seven-year-old boy has been illegally detained and tortured by the police from the Polpithigame Police Station. Ac...

SRI LANKA: Hikkaduwa Liyanage Sandun Kumara, 16, seriously tortured by the police at Rathgama Police Station 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 16-year old boy was brutally tortured by the police. The manner of torture was so brutal that clear evidence of viol...

SRI LANKA: Brutal torture by the police puts the victim in critical condition 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on another serious torture case in Sri Lanka. According to information we have received, an innocent man was brutally tor...

Judicial accountability and the cases of Irene Fernandez (Malaysia) and Michael Anthony Fernando (Sri Lanka)

The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Dato’ Param Cumaraswamy, expressed serious concerns over judicial integrity in Asia during a speech delivered i...

UPDATE (SRI LANKA): Michael Anthony Fernando freed after being given an Asian human rights award 

SRI LANKA: Update on Michael Anthony Fernando (Tony) —————————————————————...

SRI LANKA: Asian Human Rights Commission presents inaugural Human Rights Defenders Award to Michael Anthony Fernando

This 5 October 2003, the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission decided to present its inaugural Human Rights Defenders Award to Mr Michael Anthony Fernando, in recognition of his str...

UPDATE (SRI LANKA): Threats to the life of the torture victim Lalith Rajapakse 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that there was a threat to the life of the torture victim Lalith Rajapakse. Lalith Rajapakse, who was tortured by the pol...

SRI LANKA: A man severely tortured by the police officer at the Katugastota Police Station 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was severely tortured by the police officers after he was illegally arrested. Currently, the victim is in seri...

SRI LANKA: Two young men illegally arrested and assaulted by the police officers from the Mutwal Police Station 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two young men were illegally arrested and tortured by the police officers after they tried to make a complaint about...

UPDATE (SRI LANKA): Torture victim, Lalith Rajapakse, was acquitted of fabricated charges 

Case of Lalith Rajapakse before the Wattala Magistrate’s Court ——————————————————̵...

SRI LANKA: Senior judg premature resignation calls for a thorough review of Sri Lanka judiciary

Senior judge’s premature resignation calls for a thorough review of Sri Lanka’s judiciary The leading prelates of Sri Lanka have made strong pleas for Justice Mark Fernando to stay in his post despi...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Family of 14-year-old torture victim threatened by the police and a local politician 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has grave concerns that the family of torture victim, Dawundage Pushpakumara (14 years old), is being threatened by the police and a local politic...

UPDATE (SRI LANKA): The security of the torture victim and his Mother is severely threatened by the perpetrators 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that the torture victim, Chamila Bandara (17 years old) and his mother have fled their home after being severely thre...

SRI LANKA: A man suffers from serious head injuries after being tortured by police officers

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Kurupanawa Gamage Nihal suffered serious head injuries after the police officers of the Udugama Police S...

SRI LANKA: A man arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned for 21 months 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Kurukulasuriya Pradeep Niranjan, 30, was arrested and imprisoned for 21 months without any concrete evidence of his ...

SRI LANKA: Torture of 14 year old child by police officers 

Dear friends Victim: Dawundage Pushpakumara (14 years old) Address of victim: 21 Mile Post, Ranavarapitiya Rd, Saliyawewa Junction, Putlam Perpetrators: Officer In Charge and other officers of Saliyaw...

SRI LANKA: Minister’s attack on Sri Lankan National Police Commission speaks to its progress

That the Sri Lankan Fisheries Minister, Mahinda Wijesekara, has launched an attack on the National Police Commission (NPC) indicates that the body is already making itself felt. Reacting to investigat...

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest, torture and fabrication of charges against three young men 

Dear friends Illegal Arrest and detention, torture, and fabrication of charges to wreak vengeance for lodging complaints with the Human Rights Commission – VICTIMS: Mohamad Ameer Mohamad Riswan ...

SRI LANKA: A 50 year old man killed by the police after arrest and torture 

Dear friends Name of victim: Okanda Hevage Jinadasa (50), Married man with 5 children; a mason by occupation Date of victim’s death: 5 September 2003 Address of victim: Okkampitiya, Moneragela D...

SRI LANKA: Torture and Inhuman Assault of three young men by the Bagawantalawa police 

Dear Friends Inhuman Assault by the Bagawantalawa police of three young men The victims are; Name : Ramaiya Dhanapala Singham Age : 23 years Civil status : married with one child Address : Chapelton E...