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The Law Faculty Teachers’ Union of the University of Colombo expresses its deep concern over a statement issued by the Secretary to the Judicial Service Commission published in the Daily News on...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing this letter to you, since it is no longer possible to find any responsible agency within the Sri Lankan law enforcement system to which a complaint of this...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations in Manipur, India. The local police and the army under the cover of the dra...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), about bonded labour – effectively s...

[RE: UP-131-2005: INDIA: Protection required for girls released from prostitution and for the human rights defenders who sought to help them; UA- 190 -2005: INDIA: Demand guarantees of proper treatmen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attack on Mr. Issuk Ali, a human rights activist associated with the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of an innocent person by the local police from Maleshwaramangalam, Thrissur District, Kerala state...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the High Court of Kalutara in Sri Lanka has acquitted the police officers who assaulted a woman in public. To acquit the ac...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have beaten a number of political activists and demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and peace...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of a 14-year-old boy, Manoj Tillakaratne, who was brutally assaulted by his physical training...

The resignation of two judges from the three-member Judicial Service Commission (JSC) continues to be a matter of topmost public interest. Comments made by numerous persons reflecting different points...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a torture victim S.A. Akila Chaturanga who was arbitrarily tortured by the Horana police on the allega...

[RE: UP-023-2006: SRI LANKA: Threats made against Koraleliyanage Palitha Thissa Kumara must be dealt with immediately, UP-84-2005: The tuberculosis patient confirms Tissa Kumara’s allegation; Th...

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held on February 17, 2006 that officers of the Welipenna police station severely tortured Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara by forcing a tuberculosis patient to spit i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault of two human rights defenders by army personnel of the Ranadal Gulma on 13 ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed regarding the chaining of two peaceful protesters to hospital beds in Puri, Orissa, India. Siba Shankar Sahu and Debadutta Prad...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday February 13, 2006, which declared the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights group working in Uttar Prades...

Recent reports speak of significant reorganisation within Sri Lanka’s police department, bringing it under the control of the Secretary of Defence (SD), who will now attend to all police appoint...

[RE: UP-120-2005: SRI LANKA: Trial begins in High Court relating to the torture of Gerald Perera; UP-32-2005: SRI LANKA: Please write a letter to the Attorney General to speed up Gerald Perera’s...