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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the assault of a student by his Pirivena teacher. Early morning on 17 July 2006 a 15-year-old student Bikku...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the killings of two persons, one of whom was a minor, by officers of the Border Security Forces (BSF) operating along the Indo-Ban...
[Re: UA-221-2006: SRI LANKA: Death in prison custody of illegally arrested man; second man seriously injured, UP-140-2006: SRI LANKA: Responsibility of prison officers for death of M.S.F. Perera and...
[Re: UA-90-2004: SRI LANKA: A boy brutally assaulted by his teachers and denied his right of education; UP-42-2004: SRI LANKA: Update on a boy brutally assaulted by his teachers; UP–003–2006: SRI ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the fabricated charges of a man, owing to the line of work he is engaged in. Though the police have charged...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a 19-year-old boy named Dhanuka Tisara by the Kalutara South police after his illegal ar...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local partner regarding a man who was allegedly taken into custody by police officers and brutally tortured in Ke...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of Mr. Sadiq Ali and how he was threatened by a superior officer when he approached the off...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a killing of a 14-year-old boy named Salman and the serious injuries of a 15-year-old boy named Asqhar by the Musl...
[RE: UA-176-2004: SRI LANKA: Another alleged police murder of a man by the Moratuwa police; UP-05-2005: SRI LANKA: Mt. Lavinia police’s apparent inaction to arrest/prosecute those responsible fo...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Nepalese partner organisation Advocacy Forum of the rape of a 17-year old girl by a member of the Nepalese Army. It is feare...
In a very strange move that will surprise anyone concerned with the global effort to eradicate disappearances and gross human rights violations, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), which...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man named Saman Rohana Manawadu by the Ingiriya police. Mr. Manawadu was...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a situation regarding B. Nimal, who was illegally detained by the Wanduramba police because his son had disappeared with ...
Note from the AHRC: In earlier communications the AHRC has reported that the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is no longer a legitimate body as the member commissioners were appointed by the Execu...
This year is the 23rd anniversary of the Black July of 1983. In a book published in June 2002, Sirisena Cooray, very much an insider to the regime in power in 1983 gives the story of the manner in w...
[UP-121-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission has yet to submit its report regarding police brutality; UP-095-2006: BANGLADESH: Government names District Judge to conduct a judicial probe into t...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about another three disappearance cases in Pakistan. They are Mr. Asif Baladi, a publisher of Peace Publishing House and the...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the death of Mudalige Sunil Fermin Perera, who died on 6 July 2006 due to torture by prison guards (Se...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a blind beggars 19-year-old daughter was gang raped by three influential men for several months. Upon knowing her...
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