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In an attempt to fill Sri Lanka’s legal lacuna, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka has adopted a draft Contempt of Court Act to be submitted to the government this month, March 2005. The draft bro...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal attacks on opposition party activist, Mr. Zahirul Islam Litu, by members of the youth wing of the r...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 8-year-old, UG Isani Madushani by her class teacher, Sarath on 22 February 2006. On Febr...
[RE: UP-031-2006: SRI LANKA: Supreme Court granted to leave to proceed in a torture case for the compensation filed by S.A. Akila Chaturanga; UA-006-2006: SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest, detention and to...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 76-year-old Mr. K Victor Fernando by Police Constable Ratwatte of the Panadura South pol...
Two recent reports in the Sri Lankan press (see Daily Mirror, 7th March 2006) have brought to light statements made by the Director General of the Commission of Bribery and Corruption and the Inspecto...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture case of Chamara Nimantha who was brutally tortured and had fabricated charges laid against...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations from Kerala, India. The local police continue to use torture and assault as...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a young couple, namely Mr. D. Indika Wasantha and Mrs. Kumudini Malkanthi, by the Rathgama...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-033-2006 March 6, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Delays in courts – everyone’s karume The expression by a High Court jud...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the acute hunger and exploitation of villagers ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding human rights violations in...
[RE: UP-82-2004: The rape case pending for over three years in magistrate court, UP-16-2004: Trial drags on for rape victim as she awaits justice, UA-33-2001: 16 year-old girl raped but no proper inve...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding human rights violations in Varanasi, India, at the hands of local police officers who act with complete impuni...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following letter from Dr. K. Manoharan of Trincomalee, whose son was one of five students murdered on 2 January 2006. As we beli...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the constant death threats made against and the harassment of a torture victim by his p...
It may be of interest to those concerned with legal and judicial reforms in Sri Lanka that the World Bank has been contributing to such a reform project for several years now. According to a project a...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following letter from Dr. K. Manoharan of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. As we believe that the problems he has raised are both tragic in personal te...
[RE: UA-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by pol...
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