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(Sorry for cross posting, Chinese message below 中文在下) Dear all, A number of organizations and individuals, including the Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor ...
The High Court judge of Negombo has acquitted the accused in the torture case of Lalith Rajapakse stating that the brain injury that the torture victim claimed due to assaults inside the Kandana Polic...
In the most significant blow dealt by the Supreme Court against the system of the executive presidency introduced by the 1978 Constitution, yesterday (October 8, 2008), a former president of Sri Lanka...
On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, the Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to thank and congratulate the federal government of Pakistan for stepping in at the eleventh hour t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has followed with concern reports that a group of soldiers raped and killed a teenage schoolgirl in the north of Burma. It has since obtained det...
(Hong Kong, October 7, 2008) We reproduce below a letter written by a senior lawyer, R.K.W. Goonersekere, who was a member of the delegation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka that met the Executive ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index No: ASA 37/029/2008 Date: 6 October 2008 In the wake of this mornings suicide bombing, Amnesty International calls again on all parties in the conflic...
The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding two releases by Sri Lankan organisations on the matter of the grenade attack on the residence of senior lawyer, Mr. J.C. Weliamuna Sri Lanka: Breakdown ...
The Sri Lankan Parliament should reject, through a vote of no confidence, the membership of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, otherwise known as Karuna, who is alleged to have committed war crimes and cri...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been closely following and documenting the detentions and trials in Burma following last September’s mass protests. In this appeal we b...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the whereabouts of an activist who disappeared on 17 September 2008 remains unknown. The victim’s disappearance t...
Amnesty International wishes to express its sympathy and condolences at the death of your father, J B Jeyaretnam, whom the organization regarded as an unflinching campaigner for the rule of law and fo...
An open letter to the Attorney General and the Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka, following the killing of Mr. Nishantha Fernando REDRESS Is an International human rights organisation with a mand...
The father of two young girls will be hanged in the early hours of October 8, 2008 at Adiala jail after being convicted on a charge of murder on April 14, 1998. Mr. Zulfiqar Ali, the condemned prisone...
To the recipients of communications through the AHRC network, Rizana Nafeek is a familiar name. The 17-year-old girl from a poor family from a conflict ridden area with a passport indicating her age a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an appeal about the impending execution of a man which is scheduled to be carried out on October 8. The ‘red warrant’ ha...
According to information issued by the Ambassador for Pakistan in the United States Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who was missing along with her three children since March 2003 and arrested by American military...
A statement by army commander Lt. General Fonseka published in the National Post in Canada, saying that “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese, but there are minority com...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a detainee whom we reported previously to have been detained for over two years without charges filed in court has continu...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that Mr. Akash, a human rights defender as well as journalist, has been facing unfair trial in an allegedly fals...
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