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Basil Fernando The attacks on the students and rhetoric against them appear in many of the reports covering Sri Lanka today. The Minister, S.B. Dissanayake is heard over television channels talking in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and other rights groups about brutal form of torture to the prisoners. The ...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Jour...
*Avinash Pandey Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka was the guest of honour at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games 2010, New Delhi. He presided over the extravagant ceremony that wo...
(Hong Kong, October 17, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received video footage from sources in West Papua, who must remain anonymous for security reasons, showing the torture of ind...
SRI LANKA: How does the constitutional question affect the question of Sri Lankan identity? Basil Fernando The question of ‘identity’ means who is a Sri Lankan? It could be spoken of pur...
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza Endemic over-simplification by internal and external actors and purposeful attempts to reframe political debates have ensured the conversation concerning Sri Lanka’s governme...
When Philippine President Benigno Aquino III decided to grant amnesty to the military men charged for rebellion against the government and not to file criminal charges against an official and the poli...
It is diluting the UN ICCPR and CAT by having reservations against many of their provisions. The ratification of the of UN International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights (ICCPR) and the UN conve...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from LICADHO The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement and joint letter from the International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong K...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Burmese migrant workers in the city of Khon Kaen in north east Thailand, holding a peaceful protest against their...
Numbness was the first response to the verdict on Ayodhya dispute. Everything and everyone went numb. And then, an eerie silence settled in the room where we were anxiously watching the live streaming...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following joint statement from Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) and others. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———R...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Sri Lanka Guardi...
Basil Fernando Robberies- Police and 18th Amendment October 11 Anuradhapura – Rs. 1,100,000 — Rs. 1.1 million October 8 Nugegoda – Rs.1,400,000 — Rs. 1.4 million October 5 Rawa...
Basil Fernando Making a person disappear over a land dispute A place where there is no room for justice is not a nation but a madhouse. That is what Sri Lanka has become today. Ask anyone who h...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was shot dead by police officers attached to the Pitigala Police Station on 27 August 2010. A wood cutter b...
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